"頭文字" meaning in Japanese

See 頭文字 in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ka̠ɕiɾa̠mo̞ʑi] Forms: 頭文字 [canonical] (ruby: (かしら), (), ()), kashiramoji [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|かしらもじ}} 頭(かしら)文(も)字(じ) • (kashiramoji)
  1. first letter or initial of a word or initials of words Synonyms (initial): イニシャル (inisharu)
    Sense id: en-頭文字-ja-noun-AhYhnBZZ Disambiguation of 'initial': 92 8
  2. capital letter (in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian scripts)
    Sense id: en-頭文字-ja-noun-7IlX7oeK Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 8 92 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: キャピタル (kyapitaru) [letter, uppercase]

Download JSON data for 頭文字 meaning in Japanese (1.5kB)

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        ],
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        ],
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          "字",
          "じ"
        ]
      ],
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      ]
    },
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        "romanization"
      ]
    }
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    }
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      ],
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          "roman": "inisharu",
          "sense": "initial",
          "word": "イニシャル"
        }
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    },
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        },
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          "name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
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          "name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
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        "capital letter (in Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian scripts)"
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  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "[ka̠ɕiɾa̠mo̞ʑi]"
    }
  ],
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "roman": "kyapitaru",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "uppercase"
      ],
      "word": "キャピタル"
    }
  ],
  "word": "頭文字"
}
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    "Japanese nouns",
    "Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji",
    "Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
    "Japanese terms written with three Han script characters"
  ],
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          "頭",
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        ],
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    }
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      ],
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        ]
      ]
    },
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      "glosses": [
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      ],
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          "capital letter",
          "capital letter"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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    }
  ],
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    {
      "roman": "inisharu",
      "sense": "initial",
      "word": "イニシャル"
    },
    {
      "roman": "kyapitaru",
      "tags": [
        "letter",
        "uppercase"
      ],
      "word": "キャピタル"
    }
  ],
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}
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  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
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  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "頭文字",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-16 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e268c0e 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.

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