"無限" meaning in Japanese

See 無限 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: [mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ]
Etymology: May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite. Etymology templates: {{lbor|ja|zh|無限|lit=without + limit|nocap=1|sort=むげん}} learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”), {{noncog|en|infinite}} English infinite Head templates: {{ja-adj|むげん|infl=na}} 無(む)限(げん) • (mugen) -na (adnominal 無(む)限(げん)な (mugen na), adverbial 無(む)限(げん)に (mugen ni)) Inflection templates: {{ja-adj-infl|adverbial=. に|attributive=. な|conditional=. なら(ば)|conjunctive=. で|continuative=. で|degree=さ|formal=. です|formal_negative=. で は ありません|formal_negative2=. じゃ ありません|formal_negative_past=. で は ありません でした|formal_negative_past2=. じゃ ありません でした|formal_past=. でした|hypothetical=. なら|imperative=. で あれ|imperfective=. だろ|informal_negative=. で は ない|informal_negative2=. じゃ ない|informal_negative_past=. で は なかった|informal_negative_past2=. じゃ なかった|informal_past=. だった|kana=むげん|lemma=無限|provisional=. だったら|terminal=. だ|volitional=. だろう}} Forms: 無限 [canonical] (ruby: (), (げん)), mugen [romanization], 無限な [adnominal] (ruby: (), (げん)), 無限に [adverbial] (ruby: (), (げん)), no-table-tags [table-tags], 無限だろ [imperfective, stem], むげんだろ [imperfective, stem], mugen daro [imperfective], 無限で [continuative, stem], むげんで [continuative, stem], mugen de [continuative], 無限だ [stem, terminative], むげんだ [stem, terminative], mugen da [terminative], 無限な [attributive, stem], むげんな [attributive, stem], mugen na [attributive], 無限なら [hypothetical, stem], むげんなら [hypothetical, stem], mugen nara [hypothetical], 無限であれ [imperative, stem], むげんであれ [imperative, stem], mugen de are [imperative], 無限ではない [informal, negative], 無限じゃない [informal, negative], むげんではない [informal, negative], むげんじゃない [informal, negative], mugen de wa nai [informal, negative], mugen ja nai [informal, negative], 無限だった [informal, past], むげんだった [informal, past], mugen datta [informal, past], 無限ではなかった [informal, negative, past], 無限じゃなかった [informal, negative, past], むげんではなかった [informal, negative, past], むげんじゃなかった [informal, negative, past], mugen de wa nakatta [informal, negative, past], mugen ja nakatta [informal, negative, past], 無限です [formal], むげんです [formal], mugen desu [formal], 無限ではありません [formal, negative], 無限じゃありません [formal, negative], むげんではありません [formal, negative], むげんじゃありません [formal, negative], mugen de wa arimasen [formal, negative], mugen ja arimasen [formal, negative], 無限でした [formal, past], むげんでした [formal, past], mugen deshita [formal, past], 無限ではありませんでした [formal, negative, past], 無限じゃありませんでした [formal, negative, past], むげんではありませんでした [formal, negative, past], むげんじゃありませんでした [formal, negative, past], mugen de wa arimasen deshita [formal, negative, past], mugen ja arimasen deshita [formal, negative, past], 無限で [conjunctive], むげんで [conjunctive], mugen de [conjunctive], 無限なら(ば) [conditional], むげんなら(ば) [conditional], mugen nara (ba) [conditional], 無限だったら [conditional, past], むげんだったら [conditional, past], mugen dattara [conditional, past], 無限だろう [volitional], むげんだろう [volitional], mugen darō [volitional], 無限に [adverbial], むげんに [adverbial], mugen ni [adverbial], 無限さ [noun-from-adj], むげんさ [noun-from-adj], mugensa [noun-from-adj]
  1. unlimited, infinite, endless
    Sense id: en-無限-ja-adj-sZOrSnCn

Noun

IPA: [mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ] Forms: 無限 [canonical] (ruby: (), (げん)), mugen [romanization]
Etymology: May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite. Etymology templates: {{lbor|ja|zh|無限|lit=without + limit|nocap=1|sort=むげん}} learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”), {{noncog|en|infinite}} English infinite Head templates: {{ja-noun|むげん}} 無(む)限(げん) • (mugen)
  1. (philosophy, general) infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness Tags: general
    Sense id: en-無限-ja-noun-fH55ezaj Categories (other): Philosophy, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, 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 non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 2 38 9 0 41 9 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 37 6 0 50 6 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 3 73 24 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 3 67 30 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 3 69 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 2 kanji: 9 63 28 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 4 70 26 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 3 72 25 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
  2. (mathematics) infinity
    Sense id: en-無限-ja-noun-15mHBRol Categories (other): Mathematics Topics: mathematics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: 無限大 (mugendai) (ruby: (), (げん), (だい)) (english: infinitely large), 無限小 (mugenshō) (ruby: (), (げん), (しょう)) (english: infinitesimal), 無制限 (museigen) (ruby: (), (せい), (げん)) (english: limitless, unrestricted), 永遠 (eien) (ruby: (えい), (えん)) (english: eternity), 永久 (eikyū) (ruby: (えい), (きゅう)) (english: eternity)
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "limited, finite",
      "roman": "yūgen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "有",
          "ゆう"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "有限"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "無限",
        "lit": "without + limit",
        "nocap": "1",
        "sort": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infinite"
      },
      "expansion": "English infinite",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "無限",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限な",
      "roman": "mugen na",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adnominal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限に",
      "roman": "mugen ni",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen daro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限で",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen da",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限な",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんな",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限なら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんなら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen nara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限であれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんであれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de are",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen datta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限です",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限でした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限で",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限なら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんなら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen nara (ba)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen dattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen darō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限に",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんに",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限さ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugensa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むげん",
        "infl": "na"
      },
      "expansion": "無(む)限(げん) • (mugen) -na (adnominal 無(む)限(げん)な (mugen na), adverbial 無(む)限(げん)に (mugen ni))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": ". に",
        "attributive": ". な",
        "conditional": ". なら(ば)",
        "conjunctive": ". で",
        "continuative": ". で",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": ". です",
        "formal_negative": ". で は ありません",
        "formal_negative2": ". じゃ ありません",
        "formal_negative_past": ". で は ありません でした",
        "formal_negative_past2": ". じゃ ありません でした",
        "formal_past": ". でした",
        "hypothetical": ". なら",
        "imperative": ". で あれ",
        "imperfective": ". だろ",
        "informal_negative": ". で は ない",
        "informal_negative2": ". じゃ ない",
        "informal_negative_past": ". で は なかった",
        "informal_negative_past2": ". じゃ なかった",
        "informal_past": ". だった",
        "kana": "むげん",
        "lemma": "無限",
        "provisional": ". だったら",
        "terminal": ". だ",
        "volitional": ". だろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "unlimited, infinite, endless"
      ],
      "id": "en-無限-ja-adj-sZOrSnCn",
      "links": [
        [
          "unlimited",
          "unlimited"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ],
        [
          "endless",
          "endless"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "むげん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "ja:哲学字彙"
  ],
  "word": "無限"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "無限",
        "lit": "without + limit",
        "nocap": "1",
        "sort": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infinite"
      },
      "expansion": "English infinite",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "無限",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "無(む)限(げん) • (mugen)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "infinitely large",
      "roman": "mugendai",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ],
        [
          "大",
          "だい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無限大"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "infinitesimal",
      "roman": "mugenshō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ],
        [
          "小",
          "しょう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無限小"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "limitless, unrestricted",
      "roman": "museigen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "制",
          "せい"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無制限"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "eternity",
      "roman": "eien",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "永",
          "えい"
        ],
        [
          "遠",
          "えん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "永遠"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "eternity",
      "roman": "eikyū",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "永",
          "えい"
        ],
        [
          "久",
          "きゅう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "永久"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Philosophy",
          "orig": "ja:Philosophy",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 38 9 0 41 9",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 4 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 37 6 0 50 6",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 73 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 67 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 69 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "9 63 28",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 70 26",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 72 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre",
          "roman": "Mugen ni Megurumono, Uramogu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "む"
            ],
            [
              "限",
              "げん"
            ],
            [
              "廻",
              "めぐ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "無限に廻るもの、ウラモグ",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness"
      ],
      "id": "en-無限-ja-noun-fH55ezaj",
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "infinity",
          "infinity"
        ],
        [
          "unlimitedness",
          "unlimitedness"
        ],
        [
          "endlessness",
          "endlessness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy, general) infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "ja",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "ja:Mathematics",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "infinity"
      ],
      "id": "en-無限-ja-noun-15mHBRol",
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "infinity",
          "infinity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) infinity"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "むげん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "ja:哲学字彙"
  ],
  "word": "無限"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "english": "limited, finite",
      "roman": "yūgen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "有",
          "ゆう"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "有限"
    }
  ],
  "categories": [
    "Japanese adjectives",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese learned borrowings from Chinese",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms borrowed from Chinese",
    "Japanese terms derived from Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese な-na adjectives",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "無限",
        "lit": "without + limit",
        "nocap": "1",
        "sort": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infinite"
      },
      "expansion": "English infinite",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "無限",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限な",
      "roman": "mugen na",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adnominal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限に",
      "roman": "mugen ni",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ja-na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだろ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen daro",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限で",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "continuative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "stem",
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen da",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "terminative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限な",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんな",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen na",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限なら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんなら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen nara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "hypothetical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限であれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんであれ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de are",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "imperative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃない",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja nai",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen datta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃなかった",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja nakatta",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "informal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限です",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんです",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen desu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃありません",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja arimasen",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限でした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限ではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限じゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんではありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんじゃありませんでした",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de wa arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ja arimasen deshita",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "negative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限で",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんで",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen de",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conjunctive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限なら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんなら(ば)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen nara (ba)",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだったら",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen dattara",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "conditional",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限だろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんだろう",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen darō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "volitional"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限に",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんに",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen ni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "adverbial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "無限さ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "むげんさ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugensa",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "noun-from-adj"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むげん",
        "infl": "na"
      },
      "expansion": "無(む)限(げん) • (mugen) -na (adnominal 無(む)限(げん)な (mugen na), adverbial 無(む)限(げん)に (mugen ni))",
      "name": "ja-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "adverbial": ". に",
        "attributive": ". な",
        "conditional": ". なら(ば)",
        "conjunctive": ". で",
        "continuative": ". で",
        "degree": "さ",
        "formal": ". です",
        "formal_negative": ". で は ありません",
        "formal_negative2": ". じゃ ありません",
        "formal_negative_past": ". で は ありません でした",
        "formal_negative_past2": ". じゃ ありません でした",
        "formal_past": ". でした",
        "hypothetical": ". なら",
        "imperative": ". で あれ",
        "imperfective": ". だろ",
        "informal_negative": ". で は ない",
        "informal_negative2": ". じゃ ない",
        "informal_negative_past": ". で は なかった",
        "informal_negative_past2": ". じゃ なかった",
        "informal_past": ". だった",
        "kana": "むげん",
        "lemma": "無限",
        "provisional": ". だったら",
        "terminal": ". だ",
        "volitional": ". だろう"
      },
      "name": "ja-adj-infl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "unlimited, infinite, endless"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unlimited",
          "unlimited"
        ],
        [
          "infinite",
          "infinite"
        ],
        [
          "endless",
          "endless"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "むげん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "ja:哲学字彙"
  ],
  "word": "無限"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Japanese adjectives",
    "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Japanese learned borrowings from Chinese",
    "Japanese lemmas",
    "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
    "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms borrowed from Chinese",
    "Japanese terms derived from Chinese",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fifth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese な-na adjectives",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "zh",
        "3": "無限",
        "lit": "without + limit",
        "nocap": "1",
        "sort": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”)",
      "name": "lbor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "infinite"
      },
      "expansion": "English infinite",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "May be a learned borrowing from Chinese 無限 /无限 (wúxiàn, literally “without + limit”). First cited to 1881 in the 哲学字彙 (Tetsugaku Jii, “Philosophical Vocabulary”) as a translation of English infinite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "無限",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "mugen",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "むげん"
      },
      "expansion": "無(む)限(げん) • (mugen)",
      "name": "ja-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "english": "infinitely large",
      "roman": "mugendai",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ],
        [
          "大",
          "だい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無限大"
    },
    {
      "english": "infinitesimal",
      "roman": "mugenshō",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ],
        [
          "小",
          "しょう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無限小"
    },
    {
      "english": "limitless, unrestricted",
      "roman": "museigen",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "無",
          "む"
        ],
        [
          "制",
          "せい"
        ],
        [
          "限",
          "げん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "無制限"
    },
    {
      "english": "eternity",
      "roman": "eien",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "永",
          "えい"
        ],
        [
          "遠",
          "えん"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "永遠"
    },
    {
      "english": "eternity",
      "roman": "eikyū",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "永",
          "えい"
        ],
        [
          "久",
          "きゅう"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "永久"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Japanese terms with usage examples",
        "ja:Philosophy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_english_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              20
            ]
          ],
          "bold_roman_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              3
            ]
          ],
          "english": "Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre",
          "roman": "Mugen ni Megurumono, Uramogu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "無",
              "む"
            ],
            [
              "限",
              "げん"
            ],
            [
              "廻",
              "めぐ"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "無限に廻るもの、ウラモグ",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "philosophy",
          "philosophy"
        ],
        [
          "infinity",
          "infinity"
        ],
        [
          "unlimitedness",
          "unlimitedness"
        ],
        [
          "endlessness",
          "endlessness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(philosophy, general) infinity, unlimitedness, endlessness"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "general"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "philosophy",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "ja:Mathematics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "infinity"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "infinity",
          "infinity"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) infinity"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "むげん"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mɯ̟ɡẽ̞ɴ]"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Nihon Kokugo Daijiten",
    "University of Tokyo",
    "ja:哲学字彙"
  ],
  "word": "無限"
}

Download raw JSONL data for 無限 meaning in Japanese (12.5kB)

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

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

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). 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.