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Japanese
Pronoun
なに • (nani)
- 何: interrogative pronoun; what
c. late 9th-mid-10th century, Taketori Monogatari:これを見て、舟より下りて、「山の名を何（なに
）とか申」と問ふ。女答へていはく、「これは蓬萊の山なり」と答ふ。- Seeing this, having gotten off the ship, he asked "What do you call this mountain?" The woman answered, "This is the Hōrai mountain".
Derived terms
Symbol
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- Placeholder for a kanji or kana.
- Used to indicate a space to be filled in.
- Used to censor or obscure individual characters.
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(This term, なに (nani), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as なに, see Category:Japanese kanji read as なに.)
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