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韜晦
とうかい
1. [n,vs,vt,vi]
▶ concealing one's talents, status, intentions, etc.
▶ maintaining a strict incognito
▶ self-effacement

Conjugations


History:
2. A 2022-07-03 20:28:24  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5, daij, meikyo
  Comments:
Quite a few transitive examples on Twitter.
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
@@ -14,2 +15,2 @@
-<gloss>hidden (talents, etc.)</gloss>
-<gloss>self-concealment</gloss>
+<gloss>concealing one's talents, status, intentions, etc.</gloss>
+<gloss>maintaining a strict incognito</gloss>
1. A* 2022-07-03 13:36:13  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Refs are conflicted. The n-grams don't show much support for [vt] usage, though.

[vt]: meikyo, shinmeikai
[vi]: oukoku, iwakoku

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
| 韜晦    | 20,614 |
| とうかい  | 69,698 |

| 韜晦する  |  9,913 |
| 韜晦し   |  3,233 |

| を韜晦する |    171 |
| を韜晦し  |    226 |
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>

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