"物語" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [mo̞no̞ɡa̠ta̠ɾʲi] Forms: 物語 [canonical] (ruby: (もの), (がたり)), monogatari [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|ものがたり}} 物(もの)語(がたり) • (monogatari)
  1. a tale; a story Categories (topical): Fiction
    Sense id: en-物語-ja-noun-upBIw3uw Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Coordinate_terms: 逸話 (itsuwa) (ruby: (いつ), ()) (english: anecdotes), お話 (o-hanashi) (ruby: (はなし)) (english: talking story), 寓話 (gūwa) (ruby: (ぐう), ()) (english: allegory), 自伝 (jiden) (ruby: (), (でん)) (english: autobiography), 神話 (shinwa) (ruby: (しん), ()) (english: myth), 説話 (setsuwa) (ruby: (せつ), ()) (english: narrative), 伝説 (densetsu) (ruby: (でん), (せつ)) (english: legend), 童話: fairytale (dōwa) (ruby: (どう), ()), 法話 (hōwa) (ruby: (ほう), ()) (english: Buddhist sermon), 民話: folklore (minwa) (ruby: (みん), ()), 対話 (taiwa) (ruby: (たい), ()) (english: dialogue), 会話 (kaiwa) (ruby: (かい), ()) (english: conversation), 談話: discourse (danwa) (ruby: (だん), ()), 夢物語 (yumemonogatari) (ruby: (ゆめ), (もの), (がたり)) (english: pipe dream), 昔話 (mukashibanashi) (ruby: (むかし), (ばなし)) (english: old tale), 古話 (kosetsu) (ruby: (), (せつ)) (english: ancient belief), 伝承 (denshō) (ruby: (でん), (しょう)) (english: lore), 小説 (shōsetsu) (ruby: (しょう), (せつ)) (english: novel), 作話: fiction (tsukuribanashi) (ruby: (つくり), (ばなし)), 古伝 (koden) (ruby: (), (でん)) (english: old legend), 譬話 (tatoebanashi) (ruby: (たとえ), (ばなし)) (english: parable), 伽話 (togibanashi) (ruby: (とぎ), (ばなし)) (english: nursery tale)

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      "ipa": "[mo̞no̞ɡa̠ta̠ɾʲi]"
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            [
              "政",
              "せい"
            ],
            [
              "退",
              "たい"
            ],
            [
              "廃",
              "はん"
            ],
            [
              "貧",
              "ひん"
            ],
            [
              "困",
              "こん"
            ],
            [
              "町",
              "まち"
            ],
            [
              "起",
              "お"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "この物語は革命前夜の帝政ロシアにおいて退廃と貧困にあけくれたぺテルブルグの町に起こった……"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a tale; a story"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tale",
          "tale"
        ],
        [
          "story",
          "story"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "other": "ものがたり"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mo̞no̞ɡa̠ta̠ɾʲi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "物語"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "物語"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "物語",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 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.