<entry id="2295868" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>1674540</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>明々白々</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>明明白白</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>めいめいはくはく</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&adj-t;</pos>
<pos>&adv-to;</pos>
<pos>&adj-na;</pos>
<pos>&adj-no;</pos>
<misc>&yoji;</misc>
<gloss>clearly evident</gloss>
<gloss>quite obvious</gloss>
<gloss>as clear as day</gloss>
<gloss>beyond any doubt</gloss>
<gloss>strikingly apparent</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2014-08-25 02:55:25" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Adding yoji tagAdding yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>Kanji Haitani list</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+&lt;misc&gt;&amp;yoji;&lt;/misc&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-12-21 05:11:42" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-&lt;re_inf&gt;&amp;uK;&lt;/re_inf&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-03-30 15:31:14" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>dine</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>can someone use a bot to reorder entries like this?</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>明明白白	894
明々白々	12330</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5 +5 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;明明白白&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;明々白々&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -8 +8 @@
-&lt;keb&gt;明々白々&lt;/keb&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;明明白白&lt;/keb&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2020-03-30 23:20:37" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-03-24 16:42:16" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Brian Krznarich</upd_name>
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<upd_detl>Super useful to learn this as a set with the underlying term(and the xref is [ichi1,news1,nf10], which suggests why this fairly unusual reduplication is in somewhat-common use).

I was suspicious of the POS differences with the xref and looked pretty hard at this, but what we had seems fairly correct, even if some usage is uncommon.  [n] at least seems droppable here. There are a couple of very old google book results with a few phrases that might be "pure" [n] usage, ("明々白々を容れず" from a 1904 book on Descartes...), but these are extremely limited.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%98%8E%E3%80%85%E7%99%BD%E3%80%85
Etymology
Emphatic, reduplication of 明白めいはく (meihaku)

明白	644835	98.1%
明々白々	12330	1.9%


明々白々な事実	200	30.0%
明々白々の事実	228	34.2%
明々白々たる事実	238	35.7%

明々白々は	0	0.0%
明々白々が	0	0.0%
明々白々を	0	0.0%

"明々白々" site:twitter.com 2470
"明々白々を" site:twitter.com　　Of 4 matches, *maybe* 1 is an [n] usage. (and I don't know if it would be considered grammatical...)</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -17 +16,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;n;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -18,0 +18 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="1000220"&gt;明白・めいはく&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-03-24 22:57:29" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2024-03-24 23:59:44" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I don't think the x-ref is necessary. We don't tend to use them in cases like this.</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -14 +13,0 @@
-&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-na;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -16,0 +16 @@
+&lt;pos&gt;&amp;adj-na;&lt;/pos&gt;
@@ -18 +17,0 @@
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="1000220"&gt;明白・めいはく&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>