Chinese edit

 
idea; meaning; wish
idea; meaning; wish; desire; Italy (abbrev.)
taste
simp. and trad.
(意味)

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Noun edit

意味

  1. significance; meaning; implication
  2. interest; overtone; flavour
  3. trend; tendency

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  • (significance):
  • (interest):
  • (trend):

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Verb edit

意味

  1. to mean; to signify; to imply
  2. (Taiwan) to get a sense of; to experience; to feel

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  • (to mean):

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Japanese edit

Kanji in this term

Grade: 3

Grade: 3
goon

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

()() (imi

  1. a meaning; a significance; a point
    ()()(とお)らない。
    Imi ga tōranai.
    To not make any sense.
    ()()()る。
    Imi o toru.
    To understand.
    ()()(とら)える。
    Imi o toraeru.
    To grasp the meaning.
    • 2011 February 9, Hideaki Sorachi, “(だい)(さん)(びゃく)(さん)(じゅう)(いち)(くん) ()(ごと)(けん)(がく)大人(おとな)にとっても(まな)(こと)(おお)()”, in (ぎん)(たま) ((ぎん)(たま)), volume 38 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN:
      この(はな)(した)(みぞ)しかりファミコンの(ツー)コンのマイクしかりスーパーレジェンド(よみ)()()(かく)(そら)()(ひで)(あき)しかり ()(なか)にはなんで(そん)(ざい)するのか()()がわからないもので(あふ)れている
      Kono hana no shita mizo shikari Famikon no Tsū Kon no maiku shikari Sūpā Rejendo yomikiri kikaku no Sorachi Hideaki shikari yo no naka ni wa nan de sonzai suru no ka imi ga wakaranai mono de afurete iru
      Just like this depression under your nose, the mic on a Controller II for the Famicom, or the fact that Sorachi Hideaki was on the Super Legend one-shot project, the world is full of things no one knows why exist, things without apparent meaning.
    • 2012 July 13, “()れの(いや)()”, in 基本セット2013 [Core Set 2013], Wizards of the Coast:
      ()()のない(いのち)などありません。(ちい)さすぎるからといって(つよ)くなれない()(もの)もいません。」
      Imi no nai inochi nado arimasen. Chīsasugiru kara to itte tsuyokunare nai ikimono mo imasen.”
      “No life is without meaning. No living thing is too small to be strong.”
  2. meaning; definition
    「マスをかく」ってどういう()()ですか?
    “Masu o kaku” tte dō iu imi desu ka?
    What does "masu o kaku" mean?
    ()()()(めい)(こと)()
    Imi fumei na kotoba.
    A word of unclear meaning.

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Verb edit

()()する (imi surusuru (stem ()() (imi shi), past ()()した (imi shita))

  1. to mean, signify, imply

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References edit

  • 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.
  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN

Korean edit

Hanja in this term

Noun edit

意味 (uimi) (hangeul 의미)

  1. Hanja form? of 의미 (meaning, significance).

Vietnamese edit

chữ Hán Nôm in this term

Noun edit

意味

  1. chữ Hán form of ý vị (deep; profound meaning).

Adjective edit

意味

  1. chữ Hán form of ý vị (deeply; profoundly meaningful).