<entry id="2186799" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1615620</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>堅気</keb>
<ke_pri>news2</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf38</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>かたぎ</reb>
<re_pri>news2</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf38</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>カタギ</reb>
<re_nokanji/>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>honest</gloss>
<gloss>respectable</gloss>
<gloss>decent</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
<gloss>respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.)</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>person in a respectable occupation</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-03-06 21:28:24" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Scott</upd_name>
<upd_refs>daij</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +20,4 @@
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;honest person (as opposed to yakuza, prostitute, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-03-06 23:35:59" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>making the senses line up a bit better with Daijirin/Kojien.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Daij, Koj</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -16,1 +16,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -22,1 +21,5 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;honest person (as opposed to yakuza, prostitute, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;person in a respectable occupation&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-03-07 02:02:20" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-14 22:43:57" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>This website captures subtitles from televised anime
http://anicobin.ldblog.jp/archives/53663645.html
(context: a TV producer is attempting to prod a yakuza member into performing violently for the camera)
「だったらさ！そういうのを見せてよ！今だってカタギの俺にヤラセ求められてんだよ！キレようよ！」

daijr/s have sense #1 as [adj-na] and sense #2 as [adj-no]

shinmeikai has a note:
[表記]古くは「形儀」「形気」などを用いたが、現在は多く「｛気質｝」。
but 形儀 is so rare that it's probably not worth including

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
49,089	 45.7%	堅気
23,580	 22.0%	かたぎ
34,586	 32.2%	カタギ
    79	  0.1%	形儀

The katakana form seems to get a fair amount of usage
 1,563  カタギの人
   962  カタギの仕事
   899  カタギの人間
   521  カタギの世界
   493  カタギの方
   488  カタギの生活
   367  カタギの人に
   363  カタギの衆
   202  カタギの人間に
   201  カタギの会社</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -13,0 +14,4 @@
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;カタギ&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;re_nokanji/&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -19,0 +24 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-no;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-14 22:55:22" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>(not that it makes a difference, but I just noticed that the
shinmeikai note is for a different word entirely -- please disregard)</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-15 04:03:08" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-16 19:35:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>gg5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -21,0 +23 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;decent&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -23,0 +26 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -25 +27,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>