"言" meaning in Japanese

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Character

  1. to say Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji
    Sense id: en-言-ja-character-KlHIAFBs Categories (other): Grade 2 kanji Disambiguation of Grade 2 kanji: 25 26 22 26 0
  2. speech Tags: grade-2-kanji, kanji
    Sense id: en-言-ja-character-BfthetVD Categories (other): Grade 2 kanji Disambiguation of Grade 2 kanji: 25 26 22 26 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 0 0 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant transliterations: 0 0 Derived forms: 箴言 (shingen) (english: proverb), 箴言 (Shingen) (english: Proverbs), 諛言 (yugen) (ruby: (), (げん)) (english: flatter word), 悪口雑言 (akkōzōgon) (ruby: (あっ), (こう), (ぞう), (ごん)), 伝言 (dengon) (ruby: (でん), (ごん)), 言語 (gengo) (ruby: (げん), ()), 言上 (gonjō) (ruby: (ごん), (じょう)), 方言 (hōgen) (ruby: (ほう), (げん)), 暴言 (bōgen) (ruby: (ぼう), (げん)), 無言 (mugon), 無言 (mugen), 遺言 (yuigon), 遺言 (igon), 明言 (meigen) (ruby: (めい), (げん)), 宣言 (sengen) (ruby: (せん), (げん))

Noun

IPA: [ɡẽ̞ɴ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (げん)), gen [romanization]
Etymology: From Middle Chinese 言 (MC ngjon, “speech”). Etymology templates: {{der|ja|ltc|-|sort=けん'}} Middle Chinese, {{ltc-l|言|speech}} 言 (MC ngjon, “speech”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|げん}} 言(げん) • (gen)
  1. word
    Sense id: en-言-ja-noun-mMHrTuk0
  2. (linguistics) parole Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms (parole): パロール (parōru)
    Sense id: en-言-ja-noun-JPEC222g Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 0 0 3 94 3 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 0 3 94 3 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 0 8 84 8 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 0 3 94 3 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 3 97 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences Disambiguation of 'parole': 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: [ko̞to̞] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (こと)), koto [romanization]
Etymology: Cognate with 事 (koto, “thing”). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|事||thing|tr=koto}} 事 (koto, “thing”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|こと}} 言(こと) • (koto)
  1. word
    Sense id: en-言-ja-noun-mMHrTuk01
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Download JSON data for 言 meaning in Japanese (5.5kB)

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    "Daijisen",
    "Shogakukan",
    "Tōkyō",
    "ja:大辞泉",
    "ja:松村明"
  ],
  "word": "言"
}
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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "言"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "言",
  "trace": ""
}

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  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "言"
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  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
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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.