See 算盤 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Ultimately from Middle Chinese 算盤 (MC swanX ban, “abacus”, literally “calculation + board, grid”). Compare modern Min Nan reading sǹg-pôaⁿ, Mandarin suànpán.\nJapanese sources consistently describe the abacus itself as being imported to Japan from China some time during the Muromachi period (1336–1573), although there is some disagreement as to whether this happened early in the period, or late.\nFirst attested with the reading sanban to a text from 1688.",
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"ruby": [
[
"算",
"さん"
],
[
"盤",
"ばん"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "sanban",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "さんばん",
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"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
}
],
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},
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"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"ja:Mathematics"
],
"glosses": [
"a kind of grid used in 和算 (wasan, “traditional Japanese mathematics”) to calculate higher-order functions"
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"grid",
"grid"
],
[
"和算",
"和算#Japanese"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) a kind of grid used in 和算 (wasan, “traditional Japanese mathematics”) to calculate higher-order functions"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"ja:Mathematics"
],
"glosses": [
"an abacus"
],
"links": [
[
"mathematics",
"mathematics"
],
[
"abacus",
"abacus"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(mathematics) an abacus"
],
"topics": [
"mathematics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"other": "さんばん"
},
{
"ipa": "[sã̠mbã̠ɴ]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Daijisen",
"Muromachi period",
"ja:松村明"
],
"word": "算盤"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 算盤 meaning in Japanese (8.9kB)
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