"歌" meaning in Japanese

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Affix

Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), ka [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|か}} 歌(か) • (ka)
  1. a song; to sing Categories (topical): Artistic works
    Sense id: en-歌-ja-affix-yYJFGZ4l Disambiguation of Artistic works: 25 9 0 30 35
  2. Japanese poetry; waka
    Sense id: en-歌-ja-affix-Ec9YIZL2 Categories (other): Japanese affixes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 11 53 0 13 24 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 7 44 0 14 35 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 5 55 0 9 32 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 4 68 0 6 23 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 4 53 0 8 34
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Character

  1. Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji, no-gloss
    Sense id: en-歌-ja-character-47DEQpj8 Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Derived forms: 雅歌 (gaka) (ruby: 雅歌(がか)) (english: elegant song), 雅歌 (Gaka) (ruby: 雅歌(がか)) (english: Song of Songs), 歌曲 (kakyoku) (ruby: 歌曲(かきょく)), 歌劇 (kageki) (ruby: 歌劇(かげき)), 歌詞 (kashi) (ruby: 歌詞(かし)), 歌手 (kashu) (ruby: 歌手(かしゅ)), 歌集 (kashū) (ruby: 歌集(かしゅう)), 歌唱 (kashō) (ruby: 歌唱(かしょう)), 歌舞伎: kabuki (kabuki) (ruby: 歌舞伎(かぶき)), 歌謡 (kayō) (ruby: 歌謡(かよう)), 歌会 (utakai) (ruby: 歌会(うたかい)), 歌枕 (utamakura) (ruby: 歌枕(うたまくら)), 詩歌 (shīka) (ruby: 詩歌(しいか)), 賛歌 (sanka) (ruby: 賛歌(さんか)), 讃歌 (sanka) (ruby: 讃歌(さんか)), 賛美歌 (sanbika) (ruby: 賛美歌(さんびか))

Noun

IPA: [ɯ̟ᵝta̠] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (うた)), uta [romanization]
Etymology: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *ota. Etymology templates: {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{inh|ja|jpx-pro|*ota}} Proto-Japonic *ota Head templates: {{ja-noun|うた}} 歌(うた) • (uta)
  1. (music) a song Categories (topical): Music, Artistic works
    Sense id: en-歌-ja-noun-AhLwpucC Disambiguation of Artistic works: 25 9 0 30 35 Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  2. (poetry) poetry Categories (topical): Poetry, Artistic works
    Sense id: en-歌-ja-noun-gcMg69IJ Disambiguation of Artistic works: 25 9 0 30 35 Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 21 79 Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, poetry, publishing, writing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for 歌 meaning in Japanese (5.7kB)

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      "name": "ja-pos"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "affix",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a song; to sing"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "song",
          "song"
        ],
        [
          "sing",
          "sing"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Japanese poetry; waka"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "waka",
          "waka"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "歌"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "歌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "歌",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "歌"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "affix",
  "title": "歌",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 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.