"歴史" meaning in Japanese

See 歴史 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ɾe̞kʲi̥ɕi] Forms: 歴史 [canonical] (ruby: (れき), ()), rekishi [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|れきし}} 歴(れき)史(し) • (rekishi)
  1. history
    Sense id: en-歴史-ja-noun-JZqo75io Categories (other): History Disambiguation of History: 77 23
  2. the study of history
    Sense id: en-歴史-ja-noun-oqnIh1l9 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 redundant sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 16 84 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 15 85 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 23 77 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 26 74 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 23 77 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 27 73 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 13 87
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 黒歴史 (kurorekishi) (ruby: 黒歴史(くろれきし))
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kurorekishi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "黒歴史",
          "くろれきし"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "黒歴史"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "歴史",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "歴",
          "れき"
        ],
        [
          "史",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rekishi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "れきし"
      },
      "expansion": "歴(れき)史(し) • (rekishi)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "77 23",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "History",
          "orig": "ja:History",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "history"
      ],
      "id": "en-歴史-ja-noun-JZqo75io",
      "links": [
        [
          "history",
          "history"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "15 85",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 77",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the study of history"
      ],
      "id": "en-歴史-ja-noun-oqnIh1l9"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "れきし"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɾe̞kʲi̥ɕi]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
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  ],
  "word": "歴史"
}
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    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ja:History"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "kurorekishi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "黒歴史",
          "くろれきし"
        ]
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "歴史",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "歴",
          "れき"
        ],
        [
          "史",
          "し"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "rekishi",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "history"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "history",
          "history"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "the study of history"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "れきし"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ɾe̞kʲi̥ɕi]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "ja:歴史"
  ],
  "word": "歴史"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 歴史 meaning in Japanese (1.0kB)

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