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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of げんじ – see the following entries.
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| 【元治】
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- the Genji era, 1864–1865
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| 【源氏】
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- any family or clan with a common surname of 源 (Minamoto)
- (poetry) ellipsis of 源氏行 (Genji-kō, “a form of 連歌 (renga, “linked verse”) where sixty verses are written on a piece of paper folded in three”)
- ellipsis of 源氏香 (Genji-kō, “an incense-comparing game, with five sorts of incense”)
- (painting) ellipsis of 源氏絵 (Genji-e, “paintings based on the events of the Tale of Genji; paintings depicting the Heian era in general”)
- ellipsis of 源氏織り (Genji-ori, “a type of fabric woven with intermittently gold wrapped thread, woven in Kyoto in the Edo period”)
- (historical, colloquial) a maidservant in a noble household
- (archaic women's speech) synonym of 夕顔 (yūgao): the common moonflower or moonvine, Ipomoea alba
- (archaic women's speech) synonym of 茄子 (nasu): the eggplant, Solanum melongena
- (slang) a corrupt rickshaw puller associated with a brothel who brings in customers for them, and expects a high fee
- ellipsis of 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji, a novel by Murasaki Shikibu
- ellipsis of 光源氏 (Hikaru Genji): the titular protagonist of the novel
- a placename
- a surname
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| (This term, げんじ (genji), is the hiragana spelling of the above terms.)
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(The following entries do not have a page created for them yet: 言辞, 現示, 現時, 衒示.)