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"word": "西国"
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"西",
"せい"
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[
"欧",
"おう"
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{
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[
"西",
"せい"
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[
"紀",
"き"
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"西",
"せい"
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"西",
"セイ"
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[
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"roman": "seitetsu",
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"西",
"せい"
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[
"哲",
"てつ"
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"西",
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"部",
"ぶ"
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"西",
"せい"
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[
"風",
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[
"西",
"せい"
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[
"洋",
"よう"
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"roman": "seireki",
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"西",
"せい"
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[
"暦",
"れき"
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],
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{
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"english": "watermelon",
"roman": "suika",
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[
"西",
"スイ"
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[
"瓜",
"カ"
]
],
"word": "西瓜"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "saikai",
"word": "西海"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "Saikai",
"word": "西海"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
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"以",
"い"
],
[
"西",
"せい"
]
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"word": "以西"
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"関",
"かん"
],
[
"西",
"さい"
]
],
"tags": [
"Kansai"
],
"word": "関西"
},
{
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"roman": "taisei",
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[
"泰",
"たい"
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[
"西",
"せい"
]
],
"word": "泰西"
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{
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"roman": "Chinzei",
"ruby": [
[
"鎮",
"ちん"
],
[
"西",
"ぜい"
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],
"word": "鎮西"
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{
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"roman": "tōzai",
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[
"東",
"とう"
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[
"西",
"ざい"
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],
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"日",
"にっ"
],
[
"西",
"せい"
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{
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"roman": "Bei-Sei Sensō",
"ruby": [
[
"米",
"べい"
],
[
"西",
"せい"
],
[
"戦",
"せん"
],
[
"争",
"そう"
]
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "hokusei",
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[
"北",
"ほく"
],
[
"西",
"せい"
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],
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "Shiberia",
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[
"西比利亜",
"シベリア"
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],
"word": "西比利亜"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "Supein",
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[
"西班牙",
"スペイン"
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],
"word": "西班牙"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "Chibetto",
"ruby": [
[
"西蔵",
"チベット"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "Furansu",
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[
"仏蘭西",
"フランス"
]
],
"word": "仏蘭西"
}
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"west"
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"west",
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"Europe",
"Europe"
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[
"European",
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],
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"kanji used to transliterate foreign languages"
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"extra": "(Supein): Spain, Spanish",
"word": "西班牙"
}
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"Spanish",
"Spanish"
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"autumn"
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"autumn",
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}
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"roman": "nishikaze",
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"西",
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"西",
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"側",
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"word": "西側"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "nishizama",
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"西",
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[
"方",
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"roman": "nishi no tai",
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"西",
"にし"
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[
"対",
"たい"
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"word": "西の対"
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"roman": "nishibi",
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"西",
"にし"
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[
"日",
"び"
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"word": "西日"
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{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"roman": "manishi",
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"真",
"ま"
],
[
"西",
"にし"
]
],
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}
],
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"1": "連%用%形",
"2": "れん%よう%けい",
"3": "stem or continuative form"
},
"expansion": "連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
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"2": "いぬ",
"3": "to go away",
"pos": ""
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"2": "嵐",
"3": "",
"4": "storm",
"lit": "wild + wind",
"tr": "arashi"
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"name": "m"
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "旋風",
"3": "",
"4": "whirlwind",
"tr": "tsumuji"
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"name": "m"
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{
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"2": "東",
"3": "",
"4": "east",
"pos": "from older pi muka si, literally “sun + facing + wind/direction”",
"tr": "higashi"
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"expansion": "東 (higashi, “east”, from older pi muka si, literally “sun + facing + wind/direction”)",
"name": "m"
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"2": "去に",
"3": "し",
"pos1": "the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei</span>, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 去(い)ぬ (inu</span>, “to go away”)",
"pos2": "as seen in other ancient-derived words as <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">嵐</i> (arashi, “storm”, literally “wild + wind”), <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">旋風</i> (tsumuji, “whirlwind”), <i class=\"Jpan mention\" lang=\"ja\">東</i> (higashi, “east”, from older pi muka si, literally “sun + facing + wind/direction”)",
"sort": "にし",
"t1": "going away",
"t2": "wind; (by extension) direction",
"tr1": "ini",
"tr2": "shi"
},
"expansion": "去に (ini, “going away”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 去(い)ぬ (inu, “to go away”)) + し (shi, “wind; (by extension) direction”, as seen in other ancient-derived words as 嵐 (arashi, “storm”, literally “wild + wind”), 旋風 (tsumuji, “whirlwind”), 東 (higashi, “east”, from older pi muka si, literally “sun + facing + wind/direction”))",
"name": "compound"
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{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "",
"3": "爾斯",
"tr": "nisi"
},
"expansion": "爾斯 (nisi)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Originally a compound of 去に (ini, “going away”, the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 去(い)ぬ (inu, “to go away”)) + し (shi, “wind; (by extension) direction”, as seen in other ancient-derived words as 嵐 (arashi, “storm”, literally “wild + wind”), 旋風 (tsumuji, “whirlwind”), 東 (higashi, “east”, from older pi muka si, literally “sun + facing + wind/direction”)).\nFirst cited in the Kojiki of 712, with the phonetic spelling 爾斯 (nisi).",
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}
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"expansion": "西(にし) • (nishi)",
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}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
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"pos": "noun",
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"english": "what is called in the west is realized in the east → necessary to understand the back as well as the front",
"roman": "nishi to iu tara higashi o satore",
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"西",
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[
"言",
"い"
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"東",
"ひがし"
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[
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"さと"
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],
"word": "西と言うたら東を悟れ"
},
{
"english": "if they say West, say East → tell the opposite thing every time",
"roman": "nishi to ieba higashi to iu",
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"西",
"にし"
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"ひがし"
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[
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"い"
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],
"word": "西と言えば東と言う"
},
{
"english": "cannot tell east from west → cannot be understood at all",
"roman": "nishi mo higashi mo wakaranai",
"ruby": [
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"西",
"にし"
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[
"東",
"ひがし"
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[
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"わ"
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"word": "西も東も分からない"
},
{
"english": "dog faces west while its tail points east → clearly obvious",
"roman": "inu ga nishi mukya o wa higashi",
"ruby": [
[
"犬",
"いぬ"
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[
"西",
"にし"
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[
"向",
"む"
],
[
"尾",
"お"
],
[
"東",
"ひがし"
]
],
"word": "犬が西向きゃ尾は東"
}
],
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"english": "westward-facing samurai → mnemonic for months with less than 31 days, with 士 standing for 十一",
"roman": "nishi muku samurai",
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"西",
"にし"
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[
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"む"
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"侍",
"さむらい"
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[
"二四",
"にし"
],
[
"六九",
"むく"
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[
"士",
"さむらい"
]
],
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}
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"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
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"sumo"
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[
"lower",
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[
"rank",
"rank"
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[
"wrestler",
"wrestler"
],
[
"banzuke",
"banzuke"
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"a place name, especially the name of various wards in major cities throughout Japan"
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"ward",
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"a surname"
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"other": "にし"
},
{
"ipa": "[ɲ̟iɕi]"
}
],
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"Kojiki"
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"word": "西"
}
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"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
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"form": "西",
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"西",
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"english": "wind tile; east wind; ton",
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"word": "風牌: 東"
},
{
"english": "south wind",
"roman": "nan",
"word": "南"
},
{
"english": "north wind",
"roman": "pē",
"word": "北"
}
],
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],
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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 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). 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.