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]
],
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},
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"やく"
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"予",
"よ"
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"約",
"やく"
]
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"約",
"やく"
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"束",
"そく"
]
],
"word": "約束"
}
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"to contract, to shorten"
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"shorten",
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"approximately, roughly"
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"approximately",
"approximately"
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"roughly",
"roughly"
]
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"kanji"
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}
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"other": "やく"
},
{
"ipa": "[ja̠kɯ̟ᵝ]"
}
],
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}
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"form": "約",
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"約",
"やく"
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]
}
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},
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}
],
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"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adv",
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{
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{
"english": "approximately one month",
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"ruby": [
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"約",
"やく"
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"一",
"いっ"
],
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"月",
"げつ"
]
],
"text": "約一ヶ月"
},
{
"english": "The diameter of the universe is some 93 billion light years.",
"roman": "Uchū no chokkei wa yaku kyūhyakusanjū-oku kōnen da.",
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[
"宇宙",
"うちゅう"
],
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"直径",
"ちょっけい"
],
[
"約",
"やく"
],
[
"９３０",
"きゅうひゃくさんじゅう"
],
[
"億",
"おく"
],
[
"光年",
"こうねん"
]
],
"text": "宇宙の直径は約 ９３０億光年だ。"
}
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"about, approximately"
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"Japanese kanji with historical goon reading えう",
"Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading えう",
"Japanese kanji with kan'on reading やく",
"Japanese kanji with kan'on reading よう",
"Japanese kanji with kun reading つづ-める",
"Japanese kanji with kun reading つづま-やか",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese single-kanji terms",
"Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 約",
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"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
"Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
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"いち"
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"約",
"やく"
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"契",
"けい"
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"約",
"やく"
]
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},
{
"english": "treaty",
"roman": "jōyaku",
"ruby": [
[
"条",
"じょう"
],
[
"約",
"やく"
]
],
"word": "条約"
},
{
"english": "reservation, appointment",
"roman": "yoyaku",
"ruby": [
[
"予",
"よ"
],
[
"約",
"やく"
]
],
"word": "予約"
},
{
"english": "promise",
"roman": "yakusoku",
"ruby": [
[
"約",
"やく"
],
[
"束",
"そく"
]
],
"word": "約束"
}
],
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"pos": "character",
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"contract, promise"
],
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"contract",
"contract"
],
[
"promise",
"promise"
]
],
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"grade-4-kanji",
"kanji"
]
},
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"to contract, to shorten"
],
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"shorten",
"shorten"
]
],
"tags": [
"grade-4-kanji",
"kanji"
]
},
{
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"approximately, roughly"
],
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[
"approximately",
"approximately"
],
[
"roughly",
"roughly"
]
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"grade-4-kanji",
"kanji"
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},
{
"ipa": "[ja̠kɯ̟ᵝ]"
}
],
"word": "約"
}
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"Japanese Han characters",
"Japanese adverbs",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese kanji with goon reading やく",
"Japanese kanji with goon reading よう",
"Japanese kanji with historical goon reading えう",
"Japanese kanji with historical kan'on reading えう",
"Japanese kanji with kan'on reading やく",
"Japanese kanji with kan'on reading よう",
"Japanese kanji with kun reading つづ-める",
"Japanese kanji with kun reading つづま-やか",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese single-kanji terms",
"Japanese terms spelled with fourth grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with 約",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant transliterations",
"Japanese terms written with one Han script character"
],
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"約",
"やく"
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"pos": "adv",
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{
"english": "approximately one month",
"roman": "yaku iggagetsu",
"ruby": [
[
"約",
"やく"
],
[
"一",
"いっ"
],
[
"月",
"げつ"
]
],
"text": "約一ヶ月"
},
{
"english": "The diameter of the universe is some 93 billion light years.",
"roman": "Uchū no chokkei wa yaku kyūhyakusanjū-oku kōnen da.",
"ruby": [
[
"宇宙",
"うちゅう"
],
[
"直径",
"ちょっけい"
],
[
"約",
"やく"
],
[
"９３０",
"きゅうひゃくさんじゅう"
],
[
"億",
"おく"
],
[
"光年",
"こうねん"
]
],
"text": "宇宙の直径は約 ９３０億光年だ。"
}
],
"glosses": [
"about, approximately"
],
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[
"about",
"about"
],
[
"approximately",
"approximately"
]
]
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],
"word": "約"
}
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"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"約"
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"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "adverb",
"title": "約",
"trace": ""
}
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