"序幕" meaning in Japanese

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "序幕",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "序",
          "じょ"
        ],
        [
          "幕",
          "まく"
        ]
      ],
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        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jomaku",
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        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 23 19 32",
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          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
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          "_dis": "26 23 19 32",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "opening act"
      ],
      "id": "en-序幕-ja-noun-p9kfvDiU",
      "links": [
        [
          "opening",
          "opening"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
          "_dis": "26 23 19 32",
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        {
          "_dis": "26 23 19 32",
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "37 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 67",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "40 60",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "44 56",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 65",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It was the prelude to a huge blizzard that would break meteorological records going back 30 years.",
          "ref": "1946, 海野十三, 雪魔",
          "roman": "Sore wa ima mo kishōdai no kiroku ni nokotteiru san jū nen rai no ō-fubuki no jomaku datta.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "今",
              "いま"
            ],
            [
              "気象台",
              "きしょうだい"
            ],
            [
              "記録",
              "きろく"
            ],
            [
              "残",
              "のこ"
            ],
            [
              "三十年来",
              "さんじゅうねんらい"
            ],
            [
              "大吹雪",
              "おおふぶき"
            ],
            [
              "序幕",
              "じょまく"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "それは今も気象台の記録に残っている三十年来の大吹雪の序幕だった。",
          "translation": "It was the prelude to a huge blizzard that would break meteorological records going back 30 years."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prelude"
      ],
      "id": "en-序幕-ja-noun-I0BIbuY9",
      "links": [
        [
          "prelude",
          "prelude"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "じょまく"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ʑo̞ma̠kɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "序幕"
}

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    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms read with on'yomi",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with sixth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 幕 read as まく",
    "Japanese terms spelled with 序 read as じょ",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "序幕",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "序",
          "じょ"
        ],
        [
          "幕",
          "まく"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "jomaku",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
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      },
      "expansion": "序(じょ)幕(まく) • (jomaku)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "opening act"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "opening",
          "opening"
        ],
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "It was the prelude to a huge blizzard that would break meteorological records going back 30 years.",
          "ref": "1946, 海野十三, 雪魔",
          "roman": "Sore wa ima mo kishōdai no kiroku ni nokotteiru san jū nen rai no ō-fubuki no jomaku datta.",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "今",
              "いま"
            ],
            [
              "気象台",
              "きしょうだい"
            ],
            [
              "記録",
              "きろく"
            ],
            [
              "残",
              "のこ"
            ],
            [
              "三十年来",
              "さんじゅうねんらい"
            ],
            [
              "大吹雪",
              "おおふぶき"
            ],
            [
              "序幕",
              "じょまく"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "それは今も気象台の記録に残っている三十年来の大吹雪の序幕だった。",
          "translation": "It was the prelude to a huge blizzard that would break meteorological records going back 30 years."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "prelude"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prelude",
          "prelude"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "じょまく"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[d͡ʑo̞ma̠kɯ̟]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "序幕"
}