<entry id="2194588" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1425860</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>仲居</keb>
<ke_pri>news2</ke_pri>
<ke_pri>nf40</ke_pri>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>中居</keb>
<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>なかい</reb>
<re_pri>news2</re_pri>
<re_pri>nf40</re_pri>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant)</gloss>
<gloss>hostess</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-03-20 04:26:13" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_refs>daijr (lists 中居 first)
also lists 2 other meanings, such as "female servant who 
worked in the inner part of the house of a shogun or daimyo"</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;中居&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-03-20 04:39:26" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Kojien puts 中居 first too, but my other 国語s and all the JEs either put 仲居 first, or have only 仲居. WWW counts are useless here, as 中居 is a common surname.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>GG5, Kodansha GJD, etc.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,3 +4,0 @@
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;中居&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -11,0 +8,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;中居&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-03-22 08:36:24" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_refs>料亭などで、料理を運んだりして客に応接する女性
they also act as hosts</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,1 +19,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;waitress&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;hostess (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-03-22 22:28:23" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Better if the qualification is on the earliest gloss, if possible.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,2 +19,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;waitress&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;hostess (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;waitress (in a ryokan or traditional restaurant)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;hostess&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-08 19:49:37" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Daijr and koj lead with 中居, but I do not see this form in daijs, shinmeikai, oukoku, meikyo, iwakoku, or GG5.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 仲居として │ 13,786 │ 99.6% │
│ 中居として │     58 │  0.4% │
├─ーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤
│ 仲居頭　　 │  5,519 │ 99.0% │
│ 中居頭　　 │     57 │  1.0% │
├─ーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤
│ 仲居の仕事 │  4,317 │ 97.5% │
│ 中居の仕事 │    111 │  2.5% │
├─ーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤
│ 仲居役　　 │  2,010 │ 97.5% │
│ 中居役　　 │     51 │  2.5% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;rK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-07-08 21:13:44" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>