"渦" meaning in Japanese

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Affix

IPA: [ka̠] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), ka [romanization], kwa [romanization], くわ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /kwa/ → /ka/ From Middle Chinese 渦 (MC kwa, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=か}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|渦|eddy, swirl, whirlpool|id=1}} 渦 (MC kwa, “eddy, swirl, whirlpool”) Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|か|hhira=くわ}} 渦(か) • (ka) ^(←くわ (kwa)?)
  1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex Derived forms: 渦状 (kajō) (ruby: 渦状(かじょう)) (english: a swirl shape), 渦中 (kachū) (ruby: 渦中(かちゅう)) (english: the one involved, the one dragged in, the one caught up)
    Sense id: en-渦-ja-affix-GE7Q0Bkd Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese affixes, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 49 0 51 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 49 0 51 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 0 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Character

Forms: “Jōyō” kanji [common]
  1. Tags: kanji, no-gloss
    Sense id: en-渦-ja-character-47DEQpj8 Categories (other): Common kanji, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations

Noun

IPA: [ɯ̟ᵝzɨᵝ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (うず)), uzu [romanization], udu [romanization], うづ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: /udu/ → /udzu/ → /uzu/ From Old Japanese. Etymology templates: {{lang|ja|渦}} 渦, {{inh|ja|ojp|-|sort=うず}} Old Japanese Head templates: {{ja-noun|うず|hhira=うづ}} 渦(うず) • (uzu) ^(←うづ (udu)?)
  1. eddy, swirl, whirlpool, vortex Derived forms: 渦巻き (uzumaki) (ruby: (うず), ()) (english: spiral, whirlpool, eddy), 渦潮 (uzushio) (ruby: (うず), (しお)) (english: a tidal whirlpool or eddy)
    Sense id: en-渦-ja-noun-GE7Q0Bkd Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 49 0 51 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 49 0 51 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 50 0 50 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 50 0 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for 渦 meaning in Japanese (6.0kB)

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    "渦"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "affix",
  "title": "渦",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "渦"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "渦",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.