See 越後 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "Named after the ancient province of Koshi (越国 (こしのくに, Koshinokuni)), which was split into three provinces under Emperor Monmu in the 7th century AD.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "越後",
"ruby": [
[
"越",
"えち"
],
[
"後",
"ご"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
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"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "Wetigo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
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"hiragana",
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},
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"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
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"lang_code": "ja",
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{
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"kind": "other",
"langcode": "ja",
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"parents": [],
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},
{
"kind": "place",
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{
"_dis": "66 34",
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{
"_dis": "68 32",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "60 40",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
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},
{
"_dis": "60 40",
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},
{
"_dis": "67 33",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
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{
"_dis": "67 33",
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{
"_dis": "76 24",
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"parents": [],
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},
{
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}
],
"glosses": [
"Echigo (a historical province of Japan, roughly corresponding to present-day Niigata Prefecture)"
],
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"Echigo",
"Echigo#English"
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"province"
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[
"Japan",
"Japan#English"
],
[
"Niigata",
"Niigata"
]
]
},
{
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{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese surnames",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
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}
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"a surname"
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"links": [
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"surname",
"surname"
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]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[e̞t͡ɕiɡo̞]"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Echigo Province",
"ja:越後国"
],
"word": "越後"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese proper nouns",
"Japanese terms historically spelled with ゑ",
"Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
"Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji",
"Japanese terms with 2 kanji",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation missing pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"ja:Provinces of Japan"
],
"etymology_text": "Named after the ancient province of Koshi (越国 (こしのくに, Koshinokuni)), which was split into three provinces under Emperor Monmu in the 7th century AD.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "越後",
"ruby": [
[
"越",
"えち"
],
[
"後",
"ご"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "Echigo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "Wetigo",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "ゑちご",
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"tags": [
"hiragana",
"historical"
]
}
],
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"hhira": "ゑちご"
},
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"name": "ja-pos"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
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{
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"ja:Places in Japan"
],
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],
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Echigo Province",
"ja:越後国"
],
"word": "越後"
}
Download raw JSONL data for 越後 meaning in Japanese (1.9kB)
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"msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
"path": [
"越後"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
"title": "越後",
"trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}
{
"called_from": "parser/1336",
"msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
"path": [
"越後"
],
"section": "Japanese",
"subsection": "proper noun",
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"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). 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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