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諸刃の剣両刃の剣もろ刃の剣もろはの剣 [sK]
もろはのつるぎもろはのけんりょうばのけん (両刃の剣)りょうばのつるぎ (両刃の剣)
1. [exp,n]
▶ double-edged sword



History:
6. A 2023-03-13 03:58:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-03-13 00:33:37  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
meikyo (entry for 両刃の剣)
  近年「もろはのけん」「りょうばのつるぎ」ともいうが、本来は「もろはのつるぎ」。

〈両刃/もろ刃/諸刃/もろは/りょうば〉の〈剣/つるぎ/けん〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ 諸刃の剣     │ 95,288 │ 76.2% │
│ 両刃の剣     │ 20,673 │ 16.5% │
│ もろ刃の剣    │  6,862 │  5.5% │
│ もろはの剣    │    287 │  0.2% │
│ 諸刃のつるぎ   │     61 │  0.0% │
│ もろ刃のつるぎ  │     48 │  0.0% │
│ 両刃のつるぎ   │     32 │  0.0% │
│ もろはのつるぎ  │  1,697 │  1.4% │
│ もろはのけん   │     97 │  0.1% │
│ りょうばのけん  │     20 │  0.0% │
│ りょうばのつるぎ │      0 │  0.0% │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Comments:
Proposing a merger with 1628210.
  Diff:
@@ -7,0 +8,3 @@
+<keb>両刃の剣</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -8,0 +12,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>もろはの剣</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -11,0 +19,11 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>もろはのけん</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>りょうばのけん</reb>
+<re_restr>両刃の剣</re_restr>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>りょうばのつるぎ</reb>
+<re_restr>両刃の剣</re_restr>
4. A 2023-03-12 07:05:46  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-03-12 05:27:21  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
諸刃の剣	95288	93.3%
もろ刃の剣	6862	6.7%
  Comments:
Saw a source mount out that 諸 has so many readings, もろ may be preferred to avoid ambiguity.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>もろ刃の剣</keb>
2. A 2018-10-13 13:29:55  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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