"紙" meaning in Japanese

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Affix

IPA: [ɕi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), shi [romanization], si [romanization], [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 紙 (MC tsyeX). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=し}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|紙}} 紙 (MC tsyeX) Head templates: {{ja-pos|affix|し|hist=し}} 紙(し) • (shi) ^(←し (si)?)
  1. paper Categories (topical): Paper
    Sense id: en-紙-ja-affix-OCY1yTJb Disambiguation of Paper: 28 16 28 28
  2. newspaper Categories (topical): Paper
    Sense id: en-紙-ja-affix-8pxFEWcv Disambiguation of Paper: 28 16 28 28 Categories (other): Japanese affixes, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese affixes: 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 100 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 61 39 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Character

  1. paper Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji Categories (topical): Paper Synonyms: (zokuji) Derived forms: 折紙 (origami), 折り紙 (origami) (english: origami), 切紙 (kirigami), 切り紙 (kirigami) (english: kirigami), 絵手紙 (etegami) (ruby: (), (), (がみ)) (english: etegami), 紙幣 (shihei) (ruby: (), (へい)) (english: paper money, bill, note), 手紙 (tegami) (ruby: (), (がみ)) (english: letter)
    Sense id: en-紙-ja-character-OCY1yTJb Disambiguation of Paper: 28 16 28 28 Categories (other): Grade 2 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations

Noun

IPA: [ka̠mʲi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (かみ)), kami [romanization]
Etymology: Cited to manuscript kana glosses in the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE. Appears to be a shift in pronunciation from the Middle Chinese term 簡 (MC keanX), borrowed into Old Japanese with the pronunciation kan. * /kaɴ/ → */kamu/ → /kami/ Earlier Japanese writing was ambiguous regarding the final n sound spelled ん in modern Japanese, with this sound often spelled (and possibly pronounced) as む (mu) instead. Compare the similar appearance of an excrescent final -i in the derivation of 文 (fumi) from borrowed bun or pun. Etymology templates: {{C.E.|nodots=1}} CE, {{CE}} CE, {{der|ja|ltc|-}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|簡||bamboo slip used for writing}} 簡 (MC keanX), {{inh|ja|ojp|-}} Old Japanese, {{m|ja|ん}} ん, {{m|ja|む|tr=mu}} む (mu), {{m|ja|文|tr=fumi}} 文 (fumi) Head templates: {{ja-noun|かみ}} 紙(かみ) • (kami)
  1. paper Categories (topical): Paper Derived forms: 紙パック (kamipakku) (ruby: (かみ))
    Sense id: en-紙-ja-noun-OCY1yTJb Disambiguation of Paper: 28 16 28 28 Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for 紙 meaning in Japanese (6.3kB)

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        "Japanese terms with usage examples"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "major newspaper",
          "roman": "ōteshi",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "大手紙",
              "おおてし"
            ]
          ],
          "text": "大手紙"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "newspaper"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ɕi]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "紙"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "紙"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "紙",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "紙"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "affix",
  "title": "紙",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

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

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 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.