jmdict 1610640 Active (id#2273844)
齧る囓る噛る噛じる [sK]
かじる
  1. [v5r,vt] [uk]
    • to gnaw
    • to nibble
    • to bite
    • to munch
    • to crunch
  2. [v5r,vt] [uk]
    • to dabble in
    • to know a little bit about
    • to learn a little of
    • to have a smattering of
History:
    • A 2023-08-03 06:50:10 Jim Breen (id#2273844)
    • A* 2023-08-01 22:12:29 Robin Scott (id#2273748)
    • Refs
      gg5, luminous
    • Diff
      @@ -34,0 +35,2 @@
      +<gloss>to know a little bit about</gloss>
      +<gloss>to learn a little of</gloss>
    • A 2023-07-31 04:30:38 Jim Breen (id#2273695)
    • A* 2023-07-31 03:00:04 Stephen Kraus (id#2273692)
    • Refs
      〈齧(じ)/囓(じ)/噛(じ)/かじ〉る
      
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
      │ 齧る  │  38,641 │ 78.8% │
      │ 囓る  │   7,474 │ 15.2% │
      │ 噛る  │   1,473 │  3.0% │
      │ 噛じる │   1,407 │  2.9% │ - add, sK (lots of hits on twitter too)
      │ 齧じる │      32 │  0.1% │
      │ 囓じる │       0 │  0.0% │
      │ かじる │ 153,242 │  N/A  │
      ├─ーーー─┼─────────┼───────┤
      │ 齧っ  │  83,274 │ 89.9% │
      │ 囓っ  │   7,839 │  8.5% │
      │ 噛っ  │   1,459 │  1.6% │
      │ 噛じっ │      67 │  0.1% │
      │ 齧じっ │       0 │  0.0% │
      │ 囓じっ │       0 │  0.0% │
      │ かじっ │ 456,367 │  N/A  │
      ╰─ーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -11,0 +12,4 @@
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>噛じる</keb>
      +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
    • A 2020-12-04 23:54:31 Jim Breen
    • Comments
      I don't think that 読みかじる proposal really is sense 2 of 齧る; I think it's a slightly idiomatic use of sense 1. Sense 2 here seems to match the refs pretty well.
      Dropping the "ichi2" - the ichiman set has 噛る in brackets.
    • Refs
      齧る	38641 <- most other refs
      噛る	1473
      囓る	7474 <- GG5
    • Diff
      @@ -8,2 +8 @@
      -<keb>噛る</keb>
      -<ke_pri>ichi2</ke_pri>
      +<keb>囓る</keb>
      @@ -12 +11 @@
      -<keb>囓る</keb>
      +<keb>噛る</keb>
      @@ -16 +14,0 @@
      -<re_pri>ichi2</re_pri>
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