"礼" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: [kyūjitai]
Etymology: Listed in the 1946 tōyō kanji as a shinjitai of 禮. Etymology templates: {{ja-l/helper|禮||}} 禮, {{ja-l|禮}} 禮
  1. manners; etiquette Tags: grade-3-kanji, kanji, shinjitai Derived forms: 礼文島 (Rebun-tō) (ruby: (), (ぶん), (とう))
    Sense id: en-礼-ja-character-76y0i9Nw Categories (other): Grade 3 kanji, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations

Noun

IPA: [ɾe̞ː] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (れい)), rei [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 禮 (MC lejX). Etymology templates: {{ja-see|いや}}, {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=れい}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|禮}} 禮 (MC lejX) Head templates: {{ja-noun|れい}} 礼(れい) • (rei)
  1. a bow, the gesture of bending at the waist Synonyms (bow): お辞儀 (o-jigi) (ruby: (), ())
    Sense id: en-礼-ja-noun-OA5xbOtc Disambiguation of 'bow': 100 0
  2. an expression of thanks or gratitude
    Sense id: en-礼-ja-noun-SvC9ahGz Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup, 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, Pages with raw sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 4 40 56 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 35 63 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 3 32 65 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 9 38 53 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 3 33 64 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 3 34 63 Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 18 35 46
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: お礼 (o-rei) (ruby: (れい)) [honorific] Derived forms: 礼記 (reiki) (ruby: (れい), ()), 礼拝 (reihai) (ruby: (れい), (はい)), 礼儀 (reigi) (ruby: (れい), ()), 礼装 (reisō) (ruby: (れい), (そう)), 礼服 (reifuku) (ruby: (れい), (ふく)), 礼をする (reiosuru) (ruby: (れい)) Troponyms: 会釈 (eshaku) (ruby: (), (しゃく)) (english: a slight bow), 目礼 (mokurei) (ruby: (もく), (れい)) (english: a nod to a person), 黙礼 (mokurei) (ruby: (もく), (れい)) (english: a silent bow), 最敬礼 (saikeirei) (ruby: (さい), (けい), (れい)) (english: a respectful bow, a low bow), 叩頭: a deep bow (kōtō), a kowtow, a bow where one touches one's head to the floor, ground
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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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.