jmdict 1228120 Active (id#2303534)
及ばずながら； 及ばず乍ら [rK]
【 およばずながら 】
  1. [adv] [hum]
    • to the best of my ability, poor though it be
History:
    • A 2024-06-06 23:45:22 Jim Breen (id#2303534)
    • A* 2024-06-06 22:15:10 Stephen Kraus (id#2303517)
    • Refs
      smk: 謙遜の意を表わす。

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 及ばずながら　 │ 17,308 │ 90.7% │
│ 及ばず乍ら　　 │    154 │  0.8% │ - rK (kokugos)
│ およばずながら │  1,626 │  8.5% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -8,0 +9 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -14,0 +16 @@
+<misc>&hum;</misc>
    • A 2013-11-22 10:11:45 Rene Malenfant
    • A* 2013-11-22 06:30:11 Paul Upchurch
    • Comments
      Kana form is more common than 及ばず乍ら, but much less common than 及ばずながら.
    • Refs
      ngrams
    • Diff
      @@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>及ばずながら</keb>
+</k_ele>
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