"鼠" meaning in Japanese

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Character

Forms: [shinjitai]
  1. mouse, rat, other similar rodent Tags: Hyōgai, kanji, kyūjitai, uncommon Categories (lifeform): Rodents Derived forms: 殺鼠 (sasso) (ruby: (さっ), ()) (english: killing rodents), 鼠蹊 (sokei) (ruby: (), (けい)) (english: groin), 天鼠 (tenso) (ruby: (てん), ()) (english: bat), 田鼠 (denso) (ruby: (でん), ()) (english: mole), 飛鼠 (hiso) (ruby: 飛鼠(ひそ)) (english: bat), 野鼠 (yaso) (ruby: 野鼠(やそ)) (english: field rodents, wild rodents), 栗鼠 (risu) (ruby: 栗鼠(りす)) (english: squirrel)
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-character-G8yVPhCp Disambiguation of Rodents: 37 5 28 21 4 4 Categories (other): Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese terms with redundant transliterations, Uncommon kanji Disambiguation of Uncommon kanji: 100 0

Noun

IPA: [ne̞zɨᵝmʲi] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ねずみ)), [canonical] (ruby: (ネズミ)), nezumi [romanization], nedumi [romanization], ねづみ [hiragana, historical]
Etymology: Originally a compound of 根 (ne, “root”, more specifically signifying somewhere hidden away) + 住み (sumi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 住む sumu, “to live in a place, to reside”), meaning roughly “one who lives in hidden places”. The sumi changes to zumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Etymology templates: {{m|ja|鼠|tr=nezumi}} 鼠 (nezumi), {{m|ja|鼠|tr=nezumi}} 鼠 (nezumi), {{m|ja|鼠|tr=nezumi}} 鼠 (nezumi), {{m|ja|鼠|tr=nezumi}} 鼠 (nezumi), {{m|ja|連用形||continuative or stem form|tr=ren'yōkei}} 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”), {{l|ja|住む}} 住む, {{ja-l/helper|住む||}} 住む, {{ja-l|住む}} 住む, {{compound|ja|根|住み|pos1=more specifically signifying somewhere hidden away|pos2=the <i class="Jpan mention" lang="ja">連用形</i> (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 住む sumu, “to live in a place, to reside”|t1=root|tr1=ne|tr2=sumi}} 根 (ne, “root”, more specifically signifying somewhere hidden away) + 住み (sumi, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 住む sumu, “to live in a place, to reside”), {{m|ja|連濁}} 連濁, {{sortkey|ja|鼠}} ねすみ', {{rendaku2|sumi|zumi}} The sumi changes to zumi as an instance of rendaku (連濁). Head templates: {{ja-noun|ねずみ|ネズミ|hist=ねづみ}} 鼠(ねずみ) or 鼠(ネズミ) • (nezumi) ^(←ねづみ (nedumi)?)
  1. a mouse or a rat Synonyms: ねずん [Kagoshima]
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-noun-AkK253Iv Categories (other): Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 2 48 19 29 1 1
  2. general term for members of superfamily Muroidea, including mice, rats, voles, hamsters, gerbils, and other similar rodents
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-noun-MHmpu-fI Categories (other): Pages with raw sortkeys, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with rendaku Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 9 19 18 14 2 3 14 17 1 1 0 1 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 5 7 40 41 3 3 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with rendaku: 8 44 48
  3. short for 鼠色 (nezumi iro): the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour Tags: abbreviation, alt-of Alternative form of: 鼠色 (extra: (nezumi iro): the colour grey, sometimes more specifically a dark grey colour)
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-noun-ZYDidODZ Categories (other): Pages with raw sortkeys, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with multiple readings, Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese links with redundant alt parameters, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys, Japanese terms with rendaku Disambiguation of Pages with raw sortkeys: 9 19 18 14 2 3 14 17 1 1 0 1 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 2 12 33 51 1 1 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with multiple readings: 5 7 40 41 3 3 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 3 19 32 43 1 1 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 3 19 32 44 1 1 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant alt parameters: 22 31 47 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 20 35 45 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with rendaku: 8 44 48
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1 Derived forms: 赤鼠: large Japanese field mouse (akanezumi) (ruby: (あか), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Apodemus speciosus), 家鼠: domestic rodent (brown rat, black rat, and house mouse (ienezumi) (ruby: (いえ), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Mus musculus), 鬼天竺鼠: capybara (oni tenjiku nezumi) (ruby: (おに), (てん), (じく), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), 絹毛鼠: hamster (kinuge nezumi) (ruby: (きぬ), (), (ねずみ)) (english: Cricetinae), 熊鼠: black rat (kuma nezumi) (ruby: (くま), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Rattus rattus), 地鼠: white-toothed shrew (ji nezumi) (ruby: (), (ねずみ)) (english: subfamily Crocidurinae), 田鼠: field rodent (ta nezumi), wild rodent, black rat and related species (taxonomic: Rattus rattus), 旅鼠: lemming (tabi nezumi) (ruby: (たび), (ねずみ)) (english: in subfamily Arvicolinae), 地鼠: large Japanese field mouse (chi nezumi) (ruby: (), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Apodemus speciosus), 天竺鼠: guinea pig (tenjiku nezumi) (ruby: (てん), (じく), (ねずみ)) (english: in family Caviidae), 尖鼠: shrew (togari nezumi) (ruby: (とがり), (ねずみ)) (english: in family Soricidae), 溝鼠: brown rat (dobu nezumi) (ruby: (どぶ), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Rattus norvegicus), 鼠色: grey (nezumi iro) [UK], gray [US], 鼠衣 (nezumigoromo) (ruby: (ねずみ), (ごろも)) (english: simple grey clerical robes), 鼠食 (nezumikui) (ruby: (ねずみ), (くい)) (english: something that has been chew on by mice or rat), 鼠穴: a mousehole (nezumiana), a rathole, 火鼠 (hi nezumi) (ruby: (), (ねずみ)) (english: fire rat), 袋鼠: opossum (fukuro nezumi) (ruby: (ふくろ), (ねずみ)) (english: Didelphimorphia), 水畑鼠: the European water vole (mizuhata nezumi), Arvicola amphibius, formerly Arvicola terrestris, 野鼠: wild rodent (no nezumi) (ruby: (), (ねずみ)) (english: large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus), Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli), red-backed vole (Myodes spp.), etc), 野良鼠: white-toothed shrew (nora nezumi) (english: subfamily Crocidurinae), Japanese shrew mole (taxonomic: Urotrichus talpoides), Japanese dormouse (taxonomic: Glirulus japonicus), 畑鼠: Japanese grass vole (hata nezumi) (taxonomic: Microtus montebelli), vole, 二十日鼠: house mouse (hatsuka nezumi) (ruby: 二十(はつ), (), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Mus musculus), 針鼠: hedgehog (hari nezumi) (ruby: (はり), (ねずみ)), 谷地鼠: red-backed vole (yachi nezumi) (ruby: (), (), (ねずみ)) (taxonomic: Myodes spp.)

Noun

IPA: [ne̞zɨᵝ] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: (ねず)), nezu [romanization]
Etymology: Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds. Etymology templates: {{abbrev|ja}} Abbreviation Head templates: {{ja-noun|ねず}} 鼠(ねず) • (nezu)
  1. a mouse, a rat Derived forms: 鼠子: alternate name for 黒檜 (nezuko) (ruby: (ねず), (), (くろ), ()) (english: Thuja standishii, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae), 銀鼠 (ginnezu) (ruby: (ぎん), (ねず)) (english: silver-grey)
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-noun-TLidcKK~
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: [ne̞] Forms: [canonical] (ruby: ()), ne [romanization]
Etymology: Abbreviation of nezumi. Used in some compounds. Etymology templates: {{abbrev|ja|sort=ね}} Abbreviation Head templates: {{ja-noun|ね}} 鼠(ね) • (ne)
  1. a mouse, a rat Derived forms: (ne) (ruby: ()) (english: the Rat in the Chinese zodiac), 子年 (nedoshi) (ruby: (), (どし)) (english: the Year of the Rat in the Chinese zodiac), 山鼠: a Japanese dormouse (yamane) (ruby: (やま), ()) (taxonomic: Glirulus japonicus)
    Sense id: en-鼠-ja-noun-TLidcKK~1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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        {
          "english": "killing rodents",
          "roman": "sasso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "殺",
              "さっ"
            ],
            [
              "鼠",
              "そ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "殺鼠"
        },
        {
          "english": "groin",
          "roman": "sokei",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "鼠",
              "そ"
            ],
            [
              "蹊",
              "けい"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "鼠蹊"
        },
        {
          "english": "bat",
          "roman": "tenso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "天",
              "てん"
            ],
            [
              "鼠",
              "そ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "天鼠"
        },
        {
          "english": "mole",
          "roman": "denso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "田",
              "でん"
            ],
            [
              "鼠",
              "そ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "田鼠"
        },
        {
          "english": "bat",
          "roman": "hiso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "飛鼠",
              "ひそ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "飛鼠"
        },
        {
          "english": "field rodents, wild rodents",
          "roman": "yaso",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "野鼠",
              "やそ"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "野鼠"
        },
        {
          "english": "squirrel",
          "roman": "risu",
          "ruby": [
            [
              "栗鼠",
              "りす"
            ]
          ],
          "word": "栗鼠"
        }
      ],
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        "mouse, rat, other similar rodent"
      ],
      "id": "en-鼠-ja-character-G8yVPhCp",
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        [
          "mouse",
          "mouse"
        ],
        [
          "rat",
          "rat"
        ],
        [
          "rodent",
          "rodent"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Hyōgai",
        "kanji",
        "kyūjitai",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "鼠"
}

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  "derived": [
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "akanezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "赤",
          "あか"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Apodemus speciosus",
      "word": "赤鼠: large Japanese field mouse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "ienezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "家",
          "いえ"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Mus musculus",
      "word": "家鼠: domestic rodent (brown rat, black rat, and house mouse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "oni tenjiku nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "鬼",
          "おに"
        ],
        [
          "天",
          "てん"
        ],
        [
          "竺",
          "じく"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris",
      "word": "鬼天竺鼠: capybara"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "Cricetinae",
      "roman": "kinuge nezumi",
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        [
          "毛",
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        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "絹毛鼠: hamster"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "kuma nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "熊",
          "くま"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Rattus rattus",
      "word": "熊鼠: black rat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "subfamily Crocidurinae",
      "roman": "ji nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "地",
          "じ"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "地鼠: white-toothed shrew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "ta nezumi",
      "word": "田鼠: field rodent"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "wild rodent"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "taxonomic": "Rattus rattus",
      "word": "black rat and related species"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "in subfamily Arvicolinae",
      "roman": "tabi nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "旅",
          "たび"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "旅鼠: lemming"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "chi nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "地",
          "ち"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Apodemus speciosus",
      "word": "地鼠: large Japanese field mouse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "in family Caviidae",
      "roman": "tenjiku nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "天",
          "てん"
        ],
        [
          "竺",
          "じく"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "天竺鼠: guinea pig"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "in family Soricidae",
      "roman": "togari nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "尖",
          "とがり"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "尖鼠: shrew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "dobu nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "溝",
          "どぶ"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Rattus norvegicus",
      "word": "溝鼠: brown rat"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "nezumi iro",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "word": "鼠色: grey"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "word": "gray"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "simple grey clerical robes",
      "roman": "nezumigoromo",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ],
        [
          "衣",
          "ごろも"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "鼠衣"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "something that has been chew on by mice or rat",
      "roman": "nezumikui",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ],
        [
          "食",
          "くい"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "鼠食"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "nezumiana",
      "word": "鼠穴: a mousehole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "a rathole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "fire rat",
      "roman": "hi nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "火",
          "ひ"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "火鼠"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "Didelphimorphia",
      "roman": "fukuro nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "袋",
          "ふくろ"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "袋鼠: opossum"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "mizuhata nezumi",
      "word": "水畑鼠: the European water vole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "Arvicola amphibius"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "formerly Arvicola terrestris"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "large Japanese field mouse (Apodemus speciosus), Japanese grass vole (Microtus montebelli), red-backed vole (Myodes spp.), etc",
      "roman": "no nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "野",
          "の"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "野鼠: wild rodent"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "subfamily Crocidurinae",
      "roman": "nora nezumi",
      "word": "野良鼠: white-toothed shrew"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "taxonomic": "Urotrichus talpoides",
      "word": "Japanese shrew mole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "taxonomic": "Glirulus japonicus",
      "word": "Japanese dormouse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "hata nezumi",
      "taxonomic": "Microtus montebelli",
      "word": "畑鼠: Japanese grass vole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "vole"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "hatsuka nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "二十",
          "はつ"
        ],
        [
          "日",
          "か"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Mus musculus",
      "word": "二十日鼠: house mouse"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "hari nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "針",
          "はり"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "word": "針鼠: hedgehog"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "roman": "yachi nezumi",
      "ruby": [
        [
          "谷",
          "や"
        ],
        [
          "地",
          "ち"
        ],
        [
          "鼠",
          "ねずみ"
        ]
      ],
      "taxonomic": "Myodes spp.",
      "word": "谷地鼠: red-backed vole"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
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        "4": "continuative or stem form",
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ja",
        "2": "住む"
      },
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        {
          "ref": "1993 November 15 [1989 August 25], “○動物のお医者さん 登場人物紹介”, in 動物のお医者さん [The Veterinarian], 44th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Hakusensha, page 7",
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        },
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          "english": "A feral rat evil-doer that can bite through anything.",
          "ref": "1999 May 25, “イビル・ラット [Evil Rat]”, in Booster 2, Konami",
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          "english": "A rat capable of defending itself with a coat that functions as armor.",
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          "ref": "2007 November 20 [2006 March 25], Fujiko F. Fujio, “「スパルタ式にが手こくふく錠」と「にが手タッチバトン」”, in ドラえもん+, 4th edition, volume 5 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, pages 11–12",
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      "categories": [
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        {
          "ref": "1993 November 15 [1989 August 25], “○動物のお医者さん 登場人物紹介”, in 動物のお医者さん [The Veterinarian], 44th edition, volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Hakusensha, page 7",
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          "english": "A feral rat evil-doer that can bite through anything.",
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  "lang": "Japanese",
  "lang_code": "ja",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a mouse, a rat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mouse",
          "mouse"
        ],
        [
          "rat",
          "rat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ne̞]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "鼠"
}
{
  "called_from": "parser/304",
  "msg": "HTML tag <span> not properly closed",
  "path": [
    "鼠"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "鼠",
  "trace": "started on line 2, detected on line 2"
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "鼠"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "鼠",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "鼠"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "鼠",
  "trace": ""
}

{
  "called_from": "parser/1336",
  "msg": "no corresponding start tag found for </span>",
  "path": [
    "鼠"
  ],
  "section": "Japanese",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "鼠",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Japanese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). 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.