See 手前 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "You bastard, what did you do!?",
"roman": "Temē, nani shiyagatta n da!",
"ruby": [
[
"手",
"て"
],
[
"前",
"めえ"
],
[
"何",
"なに"
]
],
"text": "手前、何しやがったんだ！",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"you, you son of a bitch, you bastard"
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"you",
"you"
],
[
"son of a bitch",
"son of a bitch"
],
[
"bastard",
"bastard"
]
],
"qualifier": "men's speech",
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar, derogatory, men's speech) you, you son of a bitch, you bastard"
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "てめえ"
},
{
"ipa": "[te̞me̞ː]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"roman": "kisama",
"ruby": [
[
"貴様",
"きさま"
]
],
"word": "貴様"
},
{
"roman": "onore",
"ruby": [
[
"己",
"おのれ"
]
],
"word": "己"
},
{
"word": "てめぇ"
},
{
"word": "てめぇー"
},
{
"word": "てめェー"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Daijirin",
"Kyōsuke Kindaichi",
"Yamanote and Shitamachi#Speech"
],
"word": "手前"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 手前 meaning in Japanese (7.2kB)
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"path": [
"手前"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
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}
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"path": [
"手前"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
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"trace": ""
}
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"手前"
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"path": [
"手前"
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"subsection": "pronoun",
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"trace": ""
}
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"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
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}
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