"教祖" meaning in Japanese

See 教祖 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [kʲo̞ːso̞] Forms: 教祖 [canonical] (ruby: (きょう), ()), kyōso [romanization], keuso [romanization], けうそ [hiragana, historical]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|きょうそ|hhira=けうそ}} 教(きょう)祖(そ) • (kyōso) ^(←けうそ (keuso)?)
  1. a founder of a religious group, a religious order, or a cult
    Sense id: en-教祖-ja-noun-djt7yro~ Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 2 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Religion Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 87 13 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 77 23 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 79 21 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 49 51 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 80 20 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 85 15 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Religion: 100 0
  2. a guru
    Sense id: en-教祖-ja-noun-XHF0Uem3 Categories (other): Japanese terms with 2 kanji Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 49 51
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 開祖 (kaiso) (ruby: (かい), ()), 宗祖 (shūso) (ruby: (しゅう), ()), 開山 (kaisan) (ruby: (かい), (さん)), 祖師 (soshi) (ruby: (), ())
Categories (other): People Disambiguation of People: 0 0
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    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "教祖",
      "ruby": [
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          "きょう"
        ],
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          "祖",
          "そ"
        ]
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    },
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      "form": "kyōso",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "keuso",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "けうそ",
      "roman": "keuso",
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        "hiragana",
        "historical"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
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  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "other": "きょーそ"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[kʲo̞ːso̞]"
    }
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          "開",
          "かい"
        ],
        [
          "祖",
          "そ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "開祖"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "shūso",
      "ruby": [
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          "宗",
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          "祖",
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    },
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      "roman": "kaisan",
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          "開",
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        ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "soshi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "祖",
          "そ"
        ],
        [
          "師",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "祖師"
    }
  ],
  "word": "教祖"
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    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
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      "form": "keuso",
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  "lang_code": "ja",
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        ]
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        "a guru"
      ],
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    },
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      "ipa": "[kʲo̞ːso̞]"
    }
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          "祖",
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    },
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        ],
        [
          "師",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
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    }
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}

Download raw JSONL data for 教祖 meaning in Japanese (1.7kB)

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