<entry id="2194111" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1477040</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>八方ふさがり</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>八方塞がり</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>八方塞</keb>
<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>八方塞り</keb>
<ke_inf>&io;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>はっぽうふさがり</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>being boxed in on all sides</gloss>
<gloss>having obstacles in every direction</gloss>
<gloss>being at a loss (what to do)</gloss>
<gloss>being in a fix</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2013-08-26 02:59:16" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>pupchurch</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Paul Upchurch</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>n-grams</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;八方ふさがり&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2013-08-26 03:11:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-19 03:13:09" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>nikk, shinmeikai, jitsuyou

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
32,199	 47.0%	八方ふさがり
22,110	 32.3%	八方塞がり
13,892	 20.3%	八方塞
   268	  0.4%	はっぽうふさがり</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +9,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;八方塞&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-19 04:21:23" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Yes, a few refs have it, but it's now irregular.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;io;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-19 04:37:34" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>For what it's worth, I just saw 八方塞 in a novel published in this
century (rather than stumbling upon it while browsing the kokugos). A
twitter search shows that 八方塞り seems to get a lot of usage too;
maybe it's worth having.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>n-grams: 八方塞り  2,533</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -11,0 +12,4 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;io;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;八方塞り&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-05-19 05:20:32" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-04 16:12:41" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>gg5, daij, ルミナス</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -23,3 +23,4 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;all doors closed&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;blocked in every direction&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;cornered&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;being boxed in on all sides&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;having obstacles in every direction&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;being at a loss (what to do)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;being in a fix&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-04 22:53:17" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>