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可愛い [ateji/ichi1,news2,nf32]
【かわいい [ichi1,news2,nf32] ；かわゆい；カワイイ (nokanji)；カワイい (nokanji) 】

[adj-i] [uk]
▶ cute
▶ adorable
▶ charming
▶ lovely
▶ pretty

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2860450 かわヨ 1. cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty
	⇐ see: 2858343 可愛【かわい】 1. cute; adorable; charming; lovely; pretty
	⇐ see: 2845536 かわよい 1. cute; adorable
	⇐ see: 2578090 カワユス 1. cute!; adorable!

[adj-i] [uk]
▶ dear
▶ precious
▶ darling
▶ pet

[adj-i] [uk]
▶ innocent
▶ childlike
▶ childish
▶ lovable

[adj-i] [uk]
▶ dainty
▶ little
▶ tiny

Conjugations

History:

16.	A 2021-07-24 07:17:47 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	JEs, Kokugos
	Comments:	Best without "cute" there as it's in sense 1. I thought maybe 4 senses were too many; GG5 has 3 and 中辞典 has 2, but I see the kokugos have quite a lot. I'll look into the indexing of the sentences.
	Diff:	@@ -57 +56,0 @@ -<gloss>cute</gloss>
15.	A* 2021-07-24 01:23:46 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I'm not sure "cute little" rather than "cute; little" was a mistake? I don't think "cute" by itself means "dainty; little; tiny" in English...?
14.	A 2021-07-23 21:16:22 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
13.	A* 2021-07-23 13:41:04 jd <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	added a semi-colon after cute +dainty; cute; little; tiny -dainty; cute little; tiny
	Diff:	@@ -57 +57,2 @@ -<gloss>cute little</gloss> +<gloss>cute</gloss> +<gloss>little</gloss>
12.	A 2018-10-13 13:53:48 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Happy to drop it.
	Diff:	@@ -19 +18,0 @@ -<re_inf>&ok;</re_inf>
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11.	A* 2018-10-12 01:41:46 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Do we really want to tag かわゆい as outdated? I've seen it and I think also heard it used plenty of times. Daij both use an example from a book from 1907/Meiji 40 (which means we wouldn't tag it as arch if it were a separate sense).
10.	A 2018-02-13 03:01:50 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
9.	A* 2018-02-11 04:17:00 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	可愛ゆい is apparently the name of japanese transsexual nude idol/pornstar. there is limited evidence of it being used elsewhere and no dictionary has it.
	Diff:	@@ -11,4 +10,0 @@ -<k_ele> -<keb>可愛ゆい</keb> -<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf> -</k_ele> @@ -17 +12,0 @@ -<re_restr>可愛い</re_restr>
8.	A* 2018-02-09 08:45:52 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	daij prog chujiten innocent; childlike; childish; lovable: sense 3 is a conflation of: daijr: ④ 殊勝なところがあって、愛すべきである。「あの男にも－・いところがある」 daijs: ３無邪気で、憎めない。すれてなく、子供っぽい。「生意気だが―・いところがある」 They're two rather different takes on what I think is the same nuance.
	Diff:	@@ -53,0 +54,9 @@ +<gloss>innocent</gloss> +<gloss>childlike</gloss> +<gloss>childish</gloss> +<gloss>lovable</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&adj-i;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<gloss>dainty</gloss>
7.	A 2016-07-22 07:39:46 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	N-grams: カワイい 3899 カワイくない 3773 カワイクナイ 1788 カワイかった 25271 カワイカッタ 2172
	Comments:	It appears so....
	Diff:	@@ -29,0 +30,4 @@ +<r_ele> +<reb>カワイい</reb> +<re_nokanji/> +</r_ele>
6.	A* 2016-07-21 05:36:24 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Is it an adj-i? Does it conjugate? How?
5.	A* 2016-07-21 05:19:11 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	G n-grams: 可愛い 19104790 かわいい 21854459 カワイイ 2850663
	Diff:	@@ -24,0 +25,4 @@ +</r_ele> +<r_ele> +<reb>カワイイ</reb> +<re_nokanji/>
4.	A 2015-05-23 12:46:09 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google n-grams are a bit stronger.
3.	A* 2015-05-20 19:24:42
	Refs:	K/M n-grams 可愛い 323347 可愛ゆい 62 かわいい 328590 かわゆい 3897
	Comments:	a very slight edge
	Diff:	@@ -27,0 +28 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -35,0 +37 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -42,0 +45 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
2.	A 2011-03-10 22:10:25 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1.	A* 2011-03-10 20:07:23 Scott
	Refs:	google
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +11,4 @@ +<k_ele> +<keb>可愛ゆい</keb> +<ke_inf>&ateji;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> @@ -13,0 +17,1 @@ +<re_restr>可愛い</re_restr>

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