"薇" meaning in Japanese

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Character

  1. Tags: Hyōgai, kanji, no-gloss, uncommon Derived forms: 薔薇 (bara) (ruby: 薔薇(ばら)) (english: rose)

Noun

IPA: [d͡zẽ̞mːa̠i] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ぜんまい)), [canonical] (ruby: (ゼンマイ)), zenmai [romanization]
Etymology: Uncertain. Theories include: * Shift from 銭舞 (zeni mai, literally “coin + twirling / spinning”), from the way the fiddleheads look like rotating or twirling coins * Shift from 銭巻き (zeni maki, literally “coin + roll”), from the way the coil of a fiddlehead with the hole in the center looks like a traditional coin (which also has a hole in the center) * Shift from 千巻き (sen maki, literally “thousand + roll”), from the way the repeating pattern of the fiddleheads look like a lot of small things in a roll The "roll" derivation would align with the derivation of synonym 巻子 (makago). First attested in 1709. Etymology templates: {{vern|Japanese flowering fern}} Japanese flowering fern Head templates: {{ja-noun|ぜんまい|ゼンマイ}} 薇(ぜんまい) or 薇(ゼンマイ) • (zenmai)
  1. Japanese flowering fern (Osmunda japonica), of which the young fiddleheads are edible Categories (lifeform): Ferns Derived forms: 発条・撥条 (english: clockwork spring; zenmai, from the visual similarity to a coiled fern fiddlehead)
    Sense id: en-薇-ja-noun-oFtYsPXS Disambiguation of Ferns: 0 100 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with topic categories using raw markup: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 100 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 0 100

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). 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.

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