<entry id="2225293" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1819280</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>藻屑</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>藻くず</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>もくず</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>scraps of seaweed</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2023-03-14 03:22:54" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 藻屑　 │ 35,330 │ 71.6% │
│ 藻くず │  2,600 │  5.3% │ - add
│ 藻クズ │    141 │  0.3% │
│ もくず │  9,536 │ 19.3% │
│ モクズ │  1,765 │  3.6% │
╰─ーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;藻くず&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-14 04:03:19" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-16 23:33:02" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>This is used in figurative expressions that refer to dying at sea but I don't think it's correct to say that 藻屑 itself means "death at sea".
海の藻屑と消える and 海の藻屑となる (both in jmdict) appear to account for almost all of this figurative usage. I think the second sense can be dropped. The JEs and most of the kokugos only have one sense.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>gg5: 海の藻くずと消える[なる]　be drowned at sea; be sent to the ocean's bottom; be swallowed by the sea; meet [find] a watery grave; go [be sent] to Davy's [Davy Jones's] locker.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17,4 +16,0 @@
-&lt;sense&gt;
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;death at sea (metaphor)&lt;/gloss&gt;
-&lt;/sense&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-17 00:41:45" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>