jmdict 2423900 Active (id#2371909)
由々しき [ateji] 忌々しき忌忌しき [sK] 由由しき [sK]
ゆゆしき
  1. [adj-f]
    • grave
    • serious
    • alarming
    Cross references:
    • ⇒ see: 1605760 由々しい 1. grave; serious; alarming
History:
    • A 2026-05-27 17:03:21 Carl Bader-Nia (id#2371909)
    • Comments
      If we believe the ngrams it's quite a bit more common than the modern form.
      Especially worth keeping in this case.
      
      The 由 form is ateji in the other entry.
    • Refs
      It's also in Saito, Jitsuyou and 語彙力・二字熟語の百科事典
      
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
      │ 由々しき │ 44,255 │ 59.4% │
      │ 忌々しき │  3,986 │  5.3% │Jitsuyou; add
      │ 忌忌しき │    930 │  1.2% │add; [sK]
      │ 由由しき │    305 │  0.4% │[sK]
      │ ゆゆしき │ 25,051 │ 33.6% │
      ╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
      
      Google N-gram Corpus Counts
      ╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
      │ 由々しき │ 44,255 │ 93.0% │
      │ 由々しい │  3,342 │  7.0% │
      ╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
    • Diff
      @@ -5,0 +6,8 @@
      +<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf>
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>忌々しき</keb>
      +</k_ele>
      +<k_ele>
      +<keb>忌忌しき</keb>
      +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
      @@ -8,0 +17 @@
      +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
    • A 2026-05-27 05:28:11 Jim Breen (id#2371872)
    • Comments
      May as well stay.
    • Refs
      GG5 has it, xreffed to 由々しい.
    • D* 2026-05-26 19:31:31 (id#2371859)
    • A 2008-11-21 00:00:00
    • Comments
      Entry created
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