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<entry id="2270388" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
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<k_ele>
<keb>生きる糧</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>いきるかて</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&exp;</pos>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="2017850">糧・かて・2</xref>
<gloss>source of vitality</gloss>
<gloss>life sustenance</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2023-05-31 21:30:08" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>https://proverb-encyclopedia.com/dictionary/ikirukate/
https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%BF%83%E3%81%AE%E7%B3%A7

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 生きる糧  │ 30,605 │ 99.1% │
│ 生きるカテ │     95 │  0.3% │
│ 生きるかて │     81 │  0.3% │
│ いきる糧  │     63 │  0.2% │
│ いきるかて │     33 │  0.1% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-05-31 21:47:58" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Accidentally pasted an unrelated wiktionary link in the previous edit.

Another ref:  https://word-dictionary.jp/posts/3729
使い方で気を付けるべき点は、「生きる糧」は、「生きる目的」ではないことです。生きがいであり、それにより自分に活力を与えられるのですから、「それ」が「目的」となるのは筋が違います。

There seems to be a difference between this expression and others like 「生き甲斐」.
I think 「生きる糧」 refers more to the "means" or "fuel" for living rather than a final purpose or objective.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -14 +14 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;reason for living&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;life sustenance&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-06-01 02:36:40" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Just noticed that the second sense in our entry for 糧・かて covers this figurative usage, so maybe this entry isn't needed.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-06-01 03:55:05" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'd keep it.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="2017850"&gt;糧・かて・2&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>



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