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"Requests for transliteration of Japanese quotations"
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"examples": [
{
"english": "I love my Wife; it is precisely because I love her that I do not want her to read this Diary.",
"text": "Isikawa Takuboku, Romazi Nikki\nYo wa Sai wo aisiteru; aisiteru kara koso kono Nikki wo yomase taku nai no da.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"my wife"
],
"links": [
[
"my",
"my"
],
[
"wife",
"wife"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "さい"
},
{
"ipa": "[sa̠i]"
}
],
"word": "妻"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"妻"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "妻",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"妻"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "妻",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"妻"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "妻",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.