<entry id="2290087" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1162250</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>一弦琴</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>一絃琴</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>いちげんきん</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>single-stringed Japanese zither</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2024-01-26 00:14:35" stat="A">
<upd_uid>stephen</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>gg5 likes the 絃 form. All the kokugos (daijr/s, koj, sankoku, meikyo, iwakoku, etc.) and prog prefer the 弦 form.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 一絃琴　　　 │ 2,724 │ 49.4% │
│ 一弦琴　　　 │ 2,651 │ 48.0% │ - moving up
│ いちげんきん │   144 │  2.6% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5 +5 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;一絃琴&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;一弦琴&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -8 +8 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;一弦琴&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;一絃琴&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>