"駅" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: [kyūjitai]
Etymology: Simplified from 驛 (睪 → 尺). Etymology templates: {{Han simp|驛|f=睪|t=尺}} Simplified from 驛 (睪 → 尺)
  1. Tags: kanji, no-gloss, shinjitai
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Travel Disambiguation of Travel: 0 0 0 0

Noun

IPA: [e̞kʲi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (えき)), eki [romanization]
Etymology: From Chinese 驛 /驿 (yì, “relay station (a place for changing horses in pre-modern times)”). Etymology templates: {{bor|ja|zh|驛|t=relay station (a place for changing horses in pre-modern times)}} Chinese 驛 /驿 (yì, “relay station (a place for changing horses in pre-modern times)”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|えき}} 駅(えき) • (eki)
  1. station (train, underground/subway)
    Sense id: en-駅-ja-noun-VS2uEUNk Categories (other): Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Rail transportation Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 0 32 37 32 Disambiguation of Rail transportation: 0 47 6 47
  2. (archaic) a government run post-station where officials could get horses, food, lodging Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-駅-ja-noun-19aT~P3I Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, 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 15 70 15 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 0 26 48 26 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 0 27 46 27 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 0 32 37 32 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 0 22 55 22 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 0 25 51 25 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 37 63
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: 道の駅 (michi no eki) (ruby: (みち), (えき)), 海の駅 (umi no eki) (ruby: (うみ), (えき)), 駅員 (ekīn) (ruby: (えき), (いん)) (english: station agent), 駅長 (ekichō) (ruby: (えき), (ちょう)) (english: stationmaster), 駅伝 (ekiden) (ruby: (えき), (でん)) (english: long-distance relay race), 駅前 (ekimae) (ruby: (えき), (まえ)) (english: in front of the station)
Etymology number: 1 Categories (other): Travel Disambiguation of Travel: 0 0 0 0

Noun

IPA: [ikʲi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (いき)), iki [romanization]
Head templates: {{ja-noun|いき}} 駅(いき) • (iki)
  1. (dialect, Ibaraki) station (train, underground/subway) Tags: dialectal
    Sense id: en-駅-ja-noun-VS2uEUNk1 Categories (other): Ibaraki Japanese, Japanese terms with 1 kanji, Rail transportation Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 1 kanji: 0 32 37 32 Disambiguation of Rail transportation: 0 47 6 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2 Categories (other): Travel Disambiguation of Travel: 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for 駅 meaning in Japanese (5.5kB)

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  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialect, Ibaraki",
  "path": [
    "駅"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "駅",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
  "msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: dialect, Ibaraki",
  "path": [
    "駅"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "駅",
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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 2025-06-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-20 using wiktextract (074e7de 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.

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.