"烏" meaning in Japanese

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IPA: [ɯ̟ᵝ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), u [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 烏 (MC 'u). The goon pronunciation, so likely the initial borrowing. Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=う}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|烏}} 烏 (MC 'u) Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|う}} 烏(う) • (u)
  1. crow; raven Categories (lifeform): Corvids
    Sense id: en-烏-ja-affix-2PtfG6Od Disambiguation of Corvids: 47 0 0 53 0
  2. black; dark
    Sense id: en-烏-ja-affix-OzH26Jkg
  3. (figuratively) sun Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-烏-ja-affix-J3VvBQ4U
  4. A Chinese interrogative for rhetorical questions. Categories (lifeform): Corvids
    Sense id: en-烏-ja-affix-W1Xadjse Disambiguation of Corvids: 47 0 0 53 0 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 manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 30 0 0 70 0 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 5 0 0 95 0 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 8 0 0 92 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 16 0 0 84 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 8 0 0 92 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 9 0 0 91 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 屋烏 (okū) (ruby: (おく), ()) (english: crow perching on a roof), 烏喙骨: coracoid (ukaikotsu) (ruby: (), (かい), (こつ)) [bone, anatomy, medicine, sciences], 烏合 (ugō) (ruby: (), (ごう)), 烏口骨: coracoid (ukōkotsu) (ruby: (), (こう), (こつ)) [bone, anatomy, medicine, sciences], 烏合の衆 (ugō no shū) (ruby: (), (ごう), (しゅう)) (english: a rabble, a mob, a disorderly crowd), 烏骨鶏: silky (ukokkei), silkie (english: breed of chicken), 烏啄骨: coracoid (utakukotsu) (ruby: (), (たく), (こつ)) [bone, anatomy, medicine, sciences], 烏有 (uyū) (ruby: (), (ゆう)) (english: nonexistence, nothing)
Etymology number: 2

Character

  1. Tags: Jinmeiyō, kanji, no-gloss Derived forms: 烏賊 (ika) (ruby: 烏賊(いか)) (english: squid, cuttlefish), 烏帽子 (eboshi) (ruby: 烏帽子(えぼし)), 烏秋 (ōchū) (ruby: 烏秋(オウチュウ))
    Sense id: en-烏-ja-character-47DEQpj8 Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant transliterations
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Kanji used for names Disambiguation of Kanji used for names: 0 0 0 0 0 0

Download JSON data for 烏 meaning in Japanese (5.0kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 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.