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"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with obsolete senses"
],
"glosses": [
"elephant"
],
"links": [
[
"elephant",
"elephant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) elephant"
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[kʲisa̠]"
}
],
"word": "象"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"象"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "象",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"象"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "象",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/304",
"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"象"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "象",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"象"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "象",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"象"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "象",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). 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.