<entry id="2185689" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1592920</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>乞う</keb>
<ke_pri>spec2</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>請う</keb>
<ke_pri>news2</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf26</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>こう</reb>
<re_pri>news2</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf26</re_pri>
<re_pri>spec2</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&v5u-s;</pos>
<pos>&vt;</pos>
<gloss>to beg</gloss>
<gloss>to ask</gloss>
<gloss>to request</gloss>
<gloss>to invite</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&v5u-s;</pos>
<pos>&vt;</pos>
<gloss>to pray</gloss>
<gloss>to wish</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-04-28 03:50:57" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_diff>@@ -22,0 +22,1 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;to beg&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-04-28 03:55:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-02 22:54:51" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>* adding a second sense
  daijr: 「②願いの叶（かな）うよう神仏に祈る。」
  daijs: 「② 神仏に祈り求める。」
  I took the glosses from our entry for 祈る

* moving 乞う to the first position
  All of my references lead with 請う except for koji 6e, which
  leads with 乞う. The n-gram counts favor 乞う.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
    95,597	 15.9%	請う
   505,474	 84.1%	乞う
29,857,319	   -  	こう

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
385,157	 82.6%	乞うご期待
 66,293	 14.2%	こうご期待
 13,772	  3.0%	請うご期待
  1,008	  0.2%	こうごきたい</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;乞う&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -9,3 +11,0 @@
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;乞う&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -26,0 +27,6 @@
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;v5u-s;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;vt;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to pray&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to wish​&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-02 22:55:35" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-03 00:53:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Odd UTF-8 character got in.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -31 +31 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;to wish​&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;to wish&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-03 10:00:37" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>was the spec2 intended for 乞う, which comes first?</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-05 04:43:38" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>It probably should.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+&lt;ke_pri&gt;spec2&lt;/ke_pri&gt;
@@ -11 +11,0 @@
-&lt;ke_pri&gt;spec2&lt;/ke_pri&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>