<entry id="2289640" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1598500</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>天秤</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>天びん</keb>
<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>てんびん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>(balance) scales</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="1440170">天秤棒</xref>
<misc>&abbr;</misc>
<gloss>carrying pole</gloss>
<gloss>shoulder pole</gloss>
<gloss>milkmaid's yoke</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>thread take-up lever (on a sewing machine)</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<field>&fish;</field>
<gloss>spreader bar</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2011-07-28 15:28:54" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Nils Roland Barth</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>Mark 天平 as [iK] – all the dictionaries use 天秤 only.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;天平&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;天秤&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -8,1 +8,2 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;天秤&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;天平&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;iK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2011-07-28 18:13:47" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -8,0 +8,3 @@
+&lt;keb&gt;天びん&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
@@ -10,3 +13,0 @@
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;天びん&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-02 18:37:29" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
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<upd_refs>Web search shows that 天平 has this meaning in Chinese. It doesn't seem to be used in Japanese.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 天秤にかけ　　 │ 29,686 │ 96.9% │
│ 天びんにかけ　 │    128 │  0.4% │ - sK
│ 天平にかけ　　 │      0 │  0.0% │ - drop [iK] form
│ てんびんにかけ │    817 │  2.7% │
├─ーーーーーーー─┼────────┼───────┤
│ 天秤を使っ　　 │  1,350 │ 87.4% │
│ 天びんを使っ　 │     50 │  3.2% │
│ 天平を使っ　　 │      0 │  0.0% │
│ てんびんを使っ │    145 │  9.4% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -9,4 +9 @@
-&lt;/k_ele&gt;
-&lt;k_ele&gt;
-&lt;keb&gt;天平&lt;/keb&gt;
-&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;iK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;
+&lt;ke_inf&gt;&amp;sK;&lt;/ke_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2023-03-02 20:20:49" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
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</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-20 20:41:24" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>Google image search only gives [1], but that may reflect obsolescence.  probably [abbr].  sankoku does have both [1] and [2], and this xref.  Probably safer to use the xref if you wanted to use this for whatever reason(or learn about it.  image search does come up for the xref).</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>天秤	355830	96.2%
天秤棒	14123	3.8%</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1440170"&gt;天秤棒&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-20 21:00:53" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +21 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;abbr;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-22 23:37:11" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>Added senses.
I can't find a source for "steelyard".</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>daijr/s, jawiki</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -22 +22,3 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;shoulder carrying pole&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;carrying pole&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;shoulder pole&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;milkmaid's yoke&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -26 +28,6 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;steelyard&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;thread take-up lever (on a sewing machine)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;/sense&gt;
+&lt;sense&gt;
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;fish;&lt;/field&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;spreader bar&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-01-23 06:55:09" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>