<entry id="2222099" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1825770</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>思う壺</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>思うつぼ</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>思うツボ</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>思う壷</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>おもうつぼ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>one's wishes</gloss>
<gloss>one's expectations</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>just as expected</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-10-15 00:49:22" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>huixing</upd_name>
<upd_detl>add 思うツボ</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;思うツボ&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-15 03:09:02" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus</upd_name>
<upd_refs>ordered after hits (bing)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -4,6 +4,0 @@
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;思う壺&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;思う壷&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -16,0 +10,6 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;思う壷&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;思う壺&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -18,0 +18,7 @@
+&lt;re_restr&gt;思うつぼ&lt;/re_restr&gt;
+&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壷&lt;/re_restr&gt;
+&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壺&lt;/re_restr&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;おもうツボ&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;re_restr&gt;思うツボ&lt;/re_restr&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-15 11:32:53" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-17 09:56:38" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Reordering only.

Noticed the ordering was inconsistent with the entry from 思う壺にはまる.  Cumulatively kana forms outrank the kanji form in n-grams, but if the kana forms are split to hiragana/katakana (思うツボ added in 2012), kanji seems to win easily. All three forms are quite popular on twitter, just did a hand-count for the last 12 hours (see references), and kanji beat both kana forms combined(small sample though).

I see bing counts were cited when last ordered; not sure if the accuracy is there with bing any more to verify, but today's bing seems to agree with the n-grams(at least on the kanji form winning - hiragana/katakana seems like more of a crapshoot).

I know katakana forms are not "needed" for lookup purposes, I'm not sure if they are still being included when statistically relevant, or are just left behind in legacy entries. 壺 as ツボ does seem particularly common.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>n-grams:
思う壺	53547
思うツボ	39428
思うつぼ	31182
思う壷	7420


思う壺 (111 posts in last 12 hours)
https://twitter.com/search?q=%E6%80%9D%E3%81%86%E5%A3%BA&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live
思うツボ　(48 posts in last 12 hours)
https://twitter.com/search?q=%E6%80%9D%E3%81%86%E3%83%84%E3%83%9C&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live
思うつぼ (53 hits in last 12 hours)
https://twitter.com/search?q=%E6%80%9D%E3%81%86%E3%81%A4%E3%81%BC&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live


bing:
+思う壺 7.1 million
+思うつぼ 3.1 million
+思うツボ 2.7 million

google ranks similarly-ish, but an order of magnitude fewer results.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;思う壺&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -13,3 +15,0 @@
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;思う壺&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
@@ -17,0 +18 @@
+&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壺&lt;/re_restr&gt;
@@ -20 +20,0 @@
-&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壺&lt;/re_restr&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-02-17 10:15:47" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The counts reported by the search engines are not considered reliable as indicators of relative frequency.
We've relaxed the approach to reading restrictions, so just おもうつぼ can be used here.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>おもうつぼ	3744
おもうツボ	499</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -18,7 +17,0 @@
-&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壺&lt;/re_restr&gt;
-&lt;re_restr&gt;思うつぼ&lt;/re_restr&gt;
-&lt;re_restr&gt;思う壷&lt;/re_restr&gt;
-&lt;/r_ele&gt;
-&lt;r_ele&gt;
-&lt;reb&gt;おもうツボ&lt;/reb&gt;
-&lt;re_restr&gt;思うツボ&lt;/re_restr&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>