See KY in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of",
"name": "init"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気がよめない（人）",
"2": "くう%き が よめない （ひと）",
"linkto": "空気読めない",
"rom": "kūki ga yomenai (hito)",
"t": "(someone who) can't read the room"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気を読め",
"2": "くう%き を よめ",
"linkto": "空気を読む",
"rom": "kūki o yome",
"t": "Read the room!"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of 空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”) or 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”) in rōmaji. The adjective derives from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "KY",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "KYな",
"roman": "kēwai na",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"adnominal"
]
},
{
"form": "KYに",
"roman": "kēwai ni",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "l",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai daro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai da",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYな",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイな",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai na",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYなら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイなら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai nara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYであれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイであれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de are",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai datta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "KYなら（ば）",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイなら（ば）",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai nara (ba)",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai dattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai darō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "KYに",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイに",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ni",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "KYさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwaisa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ケーワイ",
"type": "na"
},
"expansion": "KY(ケーワイ) • (kēwai) -na (adnominal KY(ケーワイ)な (kēwai na), adverbial KY(ケーワイ)に (kēwai ni))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "57 43",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms written in foreign scripts",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"not able to read the room, unable to pick up on social cues or the situation, lacking social awareness or situational awareness"
],
"id": "en-KY-ja-adj-zL6Zsw~b",
"links": [
[
"read the room",
"read the room"
],
[
"pick up on",
"pick up on"
],
[
"social cues",
"social cues"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"social awareness",
"social awareness"
],
[
"situational awareness",
"situational awareness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) not able to read the room, unable to pick up on social cues or the situation, lacking social awareness or situational awareness"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ke̞ːβ̞a̠i]"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
}
],
"word": "KY"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of",
"name": "init"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気がよめない（人）",
"2": "くう%き が よめない （ひと）",
"linkto": "空気読めない",
"rom": "kūki ga yomenai (hito)",
"t": "(someone who) can't read the room"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気を読め",
"2": "くう%き を よめ",
"linkto": "空気を読む",
"rom": "kūki o yome",
"t": "Read the room!"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of 空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”) or 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”) in rōmaji. The adjective derives from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "KY",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ケーワイ"
},
"expansion": "KY(ケーワイ) • (kēwai)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "54 46",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Japanese terms written in foreign scripts",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "kēwaigo",
"ruby": [
[
"K",
"ケー"
],
[
"Y",
"ワイ"
],
[
"語",
"ご"
]
],
"word": "KY語"
}
],
"glosses": [
"someone who is unable to read the room"
],
"id": "en-KY-ja-noun-HnYJtxRg",
"links": [
[
"read the room",
"read the room"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) someone who is unable to read the room"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ke̞ːβ̞a̠i]"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
}
],
"word": "KY"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese adjectives",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese initialisms",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese nouns",
"Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms written in foreign scripts",
"Japanese な-na adjectives",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of",
"name": "init"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気がよめない（人）",
"2": "くう%き が よめない （ひと）",
"linkto": "空気読めない",
"rom": "kūki ga yomenai (hito)",
"t": "(someone who) can't read the room"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気を読め",
"2": "くう%き を よめ",
"linkto": "空気を読む",
"rom": "kūki o yome",
"t": "Read the room!"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of 空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”) or 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”) in rōmaji. The adjective derives from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "KY",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
},
{
"form": "KYな",
"roman": "kēwai na",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"adnominal"
]
},
{
"form": "KYに",
"roman": "kēwai ni",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "l",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだろ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai daro",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperfective",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"continuative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai da",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"stem",
"terminative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYな",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイな",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai na",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"attributive",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYなら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイなら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai nara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"hypothetical",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYであれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイであれ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de are",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"stem"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃない",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja nai",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai datta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃなかった",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja nakatta",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"informal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイです",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai desu",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃありません",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja arimasen",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative"
]
},
{
"form": "KYでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYではありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYじゃありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイではありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイじゃありませんでした",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de wa arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ja arimasen deshita",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"formal",
"negative",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイで",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai de",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "KYなら（ば）",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイなら（ば）",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai nara (ba)",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだったら",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai dattara",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"conditional",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "KYだろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイだろう",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai darō",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"volitional"
]
},
{
"form": "KYに",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイに",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai ni",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"adverbial"
]
},
{
"form": "KYさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "ケーワイさ",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwaisa",
"source": "inflection",
"tags": [
"noun-from-adj"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ケーワイ",
"type": "na"
},
"expansion": "KY(ケーワイ) • (kēwai) -na (adnominal KY(ケーワイ)な (kēwai na), adverbial KY(ケーワイ)に (kēwai ni))",
"name": "ja-adj"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese slang"
],
"glosses": [
"not able to read the room, unable to pick up on social cues or the situation, lacking social awareness or situational awareness"
],
"links": [
[
"read the room",
"read the room"
],
[
"pick up on",
"pick up on"
],
[
"social cues",
"social cues"
],
[
"situation",
"situation"
],
[
"social awareness",
"social awareness"
],
[
"situational awareness",
"situational awareness"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) not able to read the room, unable to pick up on social cues or the situation, lacking social awareness or situational awareness"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ke̞ːβ̞a̠i]"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
}
],
"word": "KY"
}
{
"categories": [
"Japanese adjectives",
"Japanese entries with incorrect language header",
"Japanese initialisms",
"Japanese lemmas",
"Japanese links with redundant alt parameters",
"Japanese links with redundant wikilinks",
"Japanese nouns",
"Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent",
"Japanese terms with Nakadaka pitch accent (Tōkyō)",
"Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys",
"Japanese terms written in foreign scripts",
"Japanese な-na adjectives",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"derived": [
{
"roman": "kēwaigo",
"ruby": [
[
"K",
"ケー"
],
[
"Y",
"ワイ"
],
[
"語",
"ご"
]
],
"word": "KY語"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ja",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Initialism of",
"name": "init"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気がよめない（人）",
"2": "くう%き が よめない （ひと）",
"linkto": "空気読めない",
"rom": "kūki ga yomenai (hito)",
"t": "(someone who) can't read the room"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”)",
"name": "ja-r"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "空%気を読め",
"2": "くう%き を よめ",
"linkto": "空気を読む",
"rom": "kūki o yome",
"t": "Read the room!"
},
"expansion": "空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”)",
"name": "ja-r"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Initialism of 空(くう)気(き)がよめない（人(ひと)） (kūki ga yomenai (hito), “(someone who) can't read the room”) or 空(くう)気(き)を読(よ)め (kūki o yome, “Read the room!”) in rōmaji. The adjective derives from the noun.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "KY",
"ruby": [
[
"KY",
"ケーワイ"
]
],
"tags": [
"canonical"
]
},
{
"form": "kēwai",
"tags": [
"romanization"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ケーワイ"
},
"expansion": "KY(ケーワイ) • (kēwai)",
"name": "ja-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Japanese slang"
],
"glosses": [
"someone who is unable to read the room"
],
"links": [
[
"read the room",
"read the room"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(slang) someone who is unable to read the room"
],
"tags": [
"slang"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "[ke̞ːβ̞a̠i]"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
},
{
"other": "けーわい"
}
],
"word": "KY"
}
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