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中々 [spec1] ；中中 [ichi1] ；仲々 [rK] ；仲仲 [rK] ；却々 [rK] ；却却 [rK]
【なかなか [spec1,ichi1] 】

1.	[adv,adj-na] [uk] ▶ very ▶ considerably ▶ easily ▶ readily ▶ fairly ▶ quite ▶ highly ▶ rather
2.	[adv] [uk] 《with a verb in the negative》 ▶ by no means ▶ not readily
3.	[n] ▶ middle ▶ half-way point
4.	[adj-no] [uk] ▶ excellent ▶ wonderful ▶ very good

History:

13.	A 2022-08-04 20:52:17 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
12.	A* 2022-08-04 19:13:29 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts ╭─ーーーー─┬────────────┬───────╮ │ 中々　　 │ 1,985,514 │ 5.5% │ │ 中中　　 │ 19,380 │ 0.1% │ │ 仲々　　 │ 23,322 │ 0.1% │ 🡠 changing from iK to rK │ 仲仲　　 │ 326 │ 0.0% │ 🡠 adding (meikyo) │ 却々　　 │ 649 │ 0.0% │ 🡠 adding │ 却却　　 │ 0 │ 0.0% │ 🡠 adding (meikyo) │ なかなか │ 34,215,476 │ 94.4% │ ╰─ーーーー─┴────────────┴───────╯
	Comments:	仲仲 and 却却 only seem to be in meikyo. I don't see any usage notes. I think it's probably okay to use [rK] rather than [iK]
	Diff:	@@ -9,2 +9,2 @@ -<keb>仲々</keb> -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> +<keb>中中</keb> +<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri> @@ -13,2 +13,14 @@ -<keb>中中</keb> -<ke_pri>ichi1</ke_pri> +<keb>仲々</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>仲仲</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>却々</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>却却</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
11.	A 2018-06-02 01:40:24 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
10.	A* 2018-05-23 08:53:33 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I think "negative verb" is a little ambiguous and that "verb in the negative" or "negated verb" would be better https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_verb
	Diff:	@@ -37 +37,2 @@ -<gloss>by no means (with negative verb)</gloss> +<s_inf>with a verb in the negative</s_inf> +<gloss>by no means</gloss>
9.	A 2016-06-07 00:26:45 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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8.	A* 2016-06-06 11:49:31 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	ngrams 中々 1985514 仲々 23322 中中 19380 仲仲 326 --------------------- 中々いい 57353 中々良い 55021 中々難しい 45741 中々面白い 32620 --------------------- 仲々難しい 450 仲々面白い 403 仲々良い 359 仲々いい 351 仲々楽しい 317
	Comments:	I cannot find 仲々 in any ref The 仲々 ngrams are similar to the 中々 ngrams
	Diff:	@@ -6,0 +7,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>仲々</keb> +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
7.	A 2015-07-15 06:28:12 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -5,0 +6 @@ +<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri> @@ -13,0 +15 @@ +<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
6.	A* 2015-06-27 21:02:07 luce
	Refs:	n-grams なかなか 1133748 中中 831 中々 39039
	Comments:	中中 rather rare despite being ichi1 - spec1 for 中々 ?
	Diff:	@@ -4,0 +5,3 @@ +<keb>中々</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> @@ -7,3 +9,0 @@ -</k_ele> -<k_ele> -<keb>中々</keb> @@ -29,0 +30 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
5.	A 2012-12-18 00:36:40 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Clearly "uk" too. 15M hits vs 2M.
	Diff:	@@ -40,0 +40,1 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
4.	A 2012-12-18 00:33:57 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I feel this is part of sense 1 (and is really a case of the common な -> の transfer one sees all the time.) Then I see in the body of GG5 example after example where なかなかの is being used as Winnie describes (e.g. 彼はなかなかの書き手だ． He is a very good writer．) I think it's worth including.
3.	A* 2012-12-17 04:16:14 winnie <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	There is another adjectival use of なかなか that takes の, as in "彼はなかなかの外交家だ" (he is quite a diplomat) or "なかなかのものだったろう？" (it was wonderful, wasn't it?). I've added this as meaning 4 with adj-no as the part of speech, but the help page says adj-no is a noun that can take の, and I'm not sure if that fits here, so please change if I've got it wrong.
	Diff:	@@ -38,0 +38,6 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&adj-no;</pos> +<gloss>excellent</gloss> +<gloss>wonderful</gloss> +<gloss>very good</gloss> +</sense>
2.	A 2012-10-09 22:37:39 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Daijr, GG5, etc.
	Comments:	The JEs don't attempt to split on senses (wisely). Daijirin splits: adv/n/adj-na, but the meanings all look to same to me. I'm inclined to put them together.
	Diff:	@@ -17,0 +17,1 @@ +<pos>&adj-na;</pos> @@ -32,0 +33,5 @@ +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>middle</gloss> +<gloss>half-way point</gloss> +</sense>
1.	A* 2012-10-09 12:23:43 Marcus
	Refs:	daij "Ｂ棟ですが、高槻方面に緩やかにのびてゆく川の眺めと山に落ちてゆく夕日の眺めはなかなかですよ。" http://www.e-mansion.co.jp/bbs/thread/248786/ "なかなかですよ" 8,280,000 results
	Comments:	this is also a na-adjective, and I guess it's this sense that can by itself basically mean "なかなかいい," as in the example above. Not sure whether adj-na or adv should be 2 different senses or not?
	Diff:	@@ -30,0 +30,1 @@ +<gloss>not readily</gloss>

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