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"1": "ja",
"2": "ojp",
"3": "-",
"sort": "さま"
},
"expansion": "Old Japanese",
"name": "inh-lite"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "さ",
"3": "ま",
"pos1": "pronominal indicating a person, place, thing, or direction in the middle distance",
"pos2": "suffix indicating a quality",
"sort": "さま",
"t1": "that",
"t2": "likeness, way, similarity",
"tr1": "sa",
"tr2": "ma"
},
"expansion": "さ (sa, “that”, pronominal indicating a person, place, thing, or direction in the middle distance) + ま (ma, “likeness, way, similarity”, suffix indicating a quality)",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old Japanese. Originally a compound of さ (sa, “that”, pronominal indicating a person, place, thing, or direction in the middle distance) + ま (ma, “likeness, way, similarity”, suffix indicating a quality).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "方",
"ruby": [
[
"方",
"さま"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "sama",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "さま"
},
"expansion": "方(さま) • (sama)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages using lite templates"
],
"glosses": [
"a person's appearance (as of body, or style, or face, etc.)"
],
"links": [
[
"appearance",
"appearance"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the state or situation of a thing"
],
"links": [
[
"state",
"state"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the general trend, tenor, or feel of a thing"
],
"links": [
[
"trend",
"trend"
],
[
"tenor",
"tenor"
],
[
"feel",
"feel"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"one's social station, status, or quality"
],
"links": [
[
"social",
"social"
],
[
"station",
"station"
],
[
"status",
"status"
],
[
"quality",
"quality"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the way or means of doing something, how one does something"
],
"links": [
[
"way",
"way"
],
[
"means",
"means"
],
[
"how",
"how"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"the reason or circumstances for something"
],
"links": [
[
"reason",
"reason"
],
[
"circumstances",
"circumstances"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "さま"
},
{
"ipa": "[sa̠ma̠]"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "様"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Old Japanese language"
],
"word": "方"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "方",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "方",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "方",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "方",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "方",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "suffix",
"title": "方",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"方"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "方",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 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.
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