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jmdict 1579380 Active (id: 1149073)
三角形 [ichi1,news1,nf20] 3角形
さんかくけい [ichi1,news1,nf20] さんかっけい
1. [n,adj-no]
▶ triangle
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1085570 トライアングル 2. triangle (shape)
  ⇐ see: 2254010 形【けい】 1. form; tense



History:
4. A 2013-10-30 10:46:30  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Possibly, although Paul Blay put it in and his Japanese was way beyond that level.
3. A* 2013-10-30 10:30:12  Richard Warmington <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
It just occurred to me that "three-cornered polygon" must have been a literal (Japlish) 
rendering of the three kanji in this word 三 + 角 + 形 -- like defining 前菜 as "prior dish".
2. A 2013-10-30 08:59:23  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Let's drop it. All my JEs just say "triangle". (It came in when the entry was proposed in 2006.)
  Diff:
@@ -26,1 +26,0 @@
-<gloss>three-cornered polygon</gloss>
1. A* 2013-10-30 08:16:59  Richard Warmington <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Just curious about the second gloss.
Does it really help to say "three-cornered polygon"?
That seems like a definition of "triangle".
But who needs a definition of "triangle"?
And who would understand "three-cornered polygon" if he 
didn't already know what a triangle is?
Googling "three-cornered polygon" yields few hits, and most 
of them seem to be derived from EDICT.

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