<entry id="2318623" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1540180</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>友達甲斐</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>友達がい</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>友だちがい</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ともだちがい</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>true friendship</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-01-06 03:28:25" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>prog, eij, appears to get more hits</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;友達がい&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-10-22 05:10:06" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>I think a lot of the hits for "友達がい" in the n-gram corpus are false positives (from 友達がいる, etc.)

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
│ 友達がいのない　　 │ 364 │ 27.6% │
│ 友達甲斐のない　　 │ 926 │ 70.1% │ - move up
│ 友だちがいのない　 │  31 │  2.3% │ - add
│ ともだちがいのない │   0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;友達甲斐&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -8 +11,2 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;友達甲斐&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;友だちがい&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-10-22 11:34:33" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I agree.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>