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<entry id="2189070" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2854888</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>ヒヤヒヤ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&int;</pos>
<gloss>hear, hear!</gloss>
<gloss>that's right!</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2022-06-04 17:02:48" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>N-gram counts inflated by 冷や冷や</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr/s, koj, nikk, shinmeikai, meikyo, etc.

cf. 2424710・いいぞ (way to go!; attaboy!; hear, hear!)

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| ヒヤヒヤ | 298,456 |</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-04 22:45:09" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Is 冷や冷や/ひやひや also written ヒヤヒヤ? I doubt it distorted the n-grams as they are strictly based on written forms.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>GG5</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -9,0 +10 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;that's right!&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-04 23:44:46" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I saw 冷や冷や written as ヒヤヒヤ on Netflix today. It seems to be the dominant form (if I'm interpreting the n-grams correctly).</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| ヒヤヒヤする | 17,501 | 59.3% |
| ひやひやする |  7,463 | 25.3% |
| 冷や冷やする |  4,559 | 15.4% |</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-06-05 01:14:31" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Yes, it does seem to be used in the 冷や冷や context too.</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>



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