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jmdict 1433940 Active (id: 2207514)
爪楊枝 [ichi1] 妻楊枝 [rK] つま楊枝 [sK]
つまようじ [ichi1]
1. [n]
▶ toothpick
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2857421 小楊枝【こようじ】 1. toothpick
  ⇐ see: 1545780 楊枝【ようじ】 1. toothpick



History:
4. A 2022-09-05 23:11:28  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2022-09-05 22:14:44  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬─────────┬───────╮
│ 爪楊枝   │ 130,762 │ 56.7% │
│ つま楊枝  │   7,937 │  3.4% │ 🡠 adding
│ 妻楊枝   │   1,293 │  0.6% │ 🡠 this is in meikyo, but none of my other refs mention it
│ ツマ楊枝  │     397 │  0.2% │
│ つまようじ │  83,123 │ 36.0% │
│ ツマヨウジ │   7,243 │  3.1% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴─────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Since 妻楊枝 has the meikyo endorsement, I think [rK] might be fine
  Diff:
@@ -10 +10,5 @@
-<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>つま楊枝</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
2. A 2012-03-21 22:16:59  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2012-03-21 16:15:39  Nils Roland Barth <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
ja:WP
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/爪楊枝
3,950,000 爪楊枝
   53,800 妻楊枝
  Comments:
Add spelling 妻楊枝 – saw on chopsticks today.

Marked as [iK] b/c:
* it’s not in any dictionary I checked, and
* seems an obvious corruption/misspelling
(つま being an unfamiliar reading for 爪, which is usually つめ, and 妻 is the only familiar character with reading つま; etymology is obviously 爪 = nail, pick, not 妻 = wife) 
* also, 妻楊枝 is *much* less frequent

FWIW, the (Japanese) shop-owner averred that he’d never noticed, and thought 妻楊枝 was the usual spelling, so this seems an easily missed point.
  Diff:
@@ -7,0 +7,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>妻楊枝</keb>
+<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>

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