jmdict 2871348 Active (id#2371856)
モテカワ； モテかわ
  1. [adj-f,n] [col]
    • cute and popular with the opposite sex (esp. of a woman's appearance or fashion)
    • attractive and cute
    Cross references:
    • ⇒ see: 2871349 【モテ】 1. being popular (esp. with the opposite sex); being well-liked
    • ⇒ see: 1577200 【かわいい】 1. cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty
History:
    • A 2026-05-26 18:32:22 Carl Bader-Nia (id#2371856)
    • Comments
      Can't really find references outside jitsuyou, but gets lots of real web hits.
Almost all of the usage I spotted was [adj-f], and that also fits the glosses well.
    • Refs
      https://x.com/search?q=モテカワ&src=typed_query&f=live

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ モテカワ │ 11,778 │ 59.7% │
│ モテかわ │  7,949 │ 40.3% │
╰─ーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ モテカワ　　　　　　　　 │ 11,756 │ 41.7% │
│ モテカワ美人　　　　　　 │  2,758 │  9.8% │
│ モテカワ美人を目指すなら │  2,744 │  9.7% │
│ モテカワ美人を目指す　　 │  2,744 │  9.7% │
│ モテカワ美人を　　　　　 │  2,744 │  9.7% │
│ モテカワ系　　　　　　　 │  1,625 │  5.8% │
│ モテカワアイテム　　　　 │    962 │  3.4% │
│ モテカワ系の　　　　　　 │    869 │  3.1% │
│ モテカワアイテム満載　　 │    783 │  2.8% │
│ モテカワバッグ　　　　　 │    617 │  2.2% │
│ モテカワ系のマスト　　　 │    604 │  2.1% │
╰─ーーーーーーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯

95 to 4% in my test corpus
    • Diff
      @@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<pos>&adj-f;</pos>
@@ -11,0 +13,2 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2871349" xr="モテ">モテ</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1577200" sno="1" xr="かわいい">かわいい[1]</xref>
    • A* 2026-05-25 19:47:40 (id#2371755)
    • Refs
      jitsuyo
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