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二股；二俣；二又；二叉 [rK] ；二また [sK]
【ふたまた】

1.	[n] ▶ seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time ▶ two-timing
2.	[n,adj-no] ▶ bifurcation ▶ fork ▶ branch ▶ dichotomy
3.	[n] ▶ fence-sitting ▶ playing it both ways ▶ parting of the ways

History:

12.	A 2023-05-26 22:55:18 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -14 +14 @@ -<keb>二また</keb> +<keb>二叉</keb> @@ -18,2 +18,2 @@ -<keb>二叉</keb> -<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> +<keb>二また</keb> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
11.	A 2023-05-26 02:05:51 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	中辞典 has 二また in examples.
	Comments:	丫 is a rare JIS 212/213 kanji with the reading ふたまた and really only relates to sense 2. If it has an entry at all it should be separate from this one. I'll remove it and suggest that a new entry be created.
	Diff:	@@ -14,0 +15 @@ +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf> @@ -19,3 +19,0 @@ -</k_ele> -<k_ele> -<keb>丫</keb>
10.	A* 2023-05-25 20:30:20 David Husička <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -18,0 +19,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>丫</keb>
9.	A 2022-05-01 23:45:28 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
8.	A* 2022-05-01 23:18:45 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Google N-gram Corpus Counts 208,899 68.9% 二股 45,567 15.0% 二俣 27,599 9.1% 二又 4,665 1.5% 二また 2,245 0.7% 二叉 14,244 4.7% ふたまた
	Diff:	@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@ +<keb>二又</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> @@ -15,3 +18 @@ -</k_ele> -<k_ele> -<keb>二又</keb> +<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
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7.	A 2020-06-04 22:54:44 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	OK
6.	A* 2020-06-04 13:35:13 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I don't think so, among the top 20 results there was stuff like 二股男 ,二股する、二股をする,二股女性. Even googling 二股の, the results are all about two-timing, e.g. "あいつは二股の最低オトコ！"
5.	A* 2020-06-04 11:41:51 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Isn't that really 二股かける?
4.	A* 2020-06-04 05:50:57 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	The only thing I think of when I hear "ふたまた" is two-timing, i.e. "deceiving or being unfaithful to (a lover or spouse)" Googling the word, the 20 first entries are only about two-timing. I'm sure "bifurcation" and "fence-sitting" are both correct, but the two-timing sense seems to dominate the usage completely. I think it should be its own sense, and come first. I don't think sense 1 and 3 are adj-no.
	Diff:	@@ -23,0 +24,5 @@ +<gloss>seeing two people (i.e. romantically) at the same time</gloss> +<gloss>two-timing</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> @@ -32 +36,0 @@ -<pos>&adj-no;</pos> @@ -35 +38,0 @@ -<gloss>two-timing</gloss>
3.	A 2020-06-04 00:25:44 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	No further comments. Closing.
2.	A* 2020-05-25 05:33:53 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	Daijr, GG5, etc. 二股 208899 二俣 45567 二叉 2245 二又 27599 二また 4665
	Comments:	I think there are only two senses. I don't think the "two-timing" is really "col". Only GG5 has 二又. I think it's getting a higher count than 二叉 because 又 is 常用漢字 - it's not really the "correct" kanji. "promiscuity" is not appropriate a gloss. A two-timer may be promiscuous, of course, but that meaning is not in any reference.
	Diff:	@@ -10,0 +11,3 @@ +<keb>二また</keb> +</k_ele> +<k_ele> @@ -11,0 +15,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>二又</keb> @@ -19,0 +26,3 @@ +<gloss>fork</gloss> +<gloss>branch</gloss> +<gloss>dichotomy</gloss> @@ -23,0 +33,3 @@ +<gloss>fence-sitting</gloss> +<gloss>playing it both ways</gloss> +<gloss>two-timing</gloss> @@ -26,6 +37,0 @@ -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<pos>&adj-no;</pos> -<misc>&col;</misc> -<gloss>two-timing</gloss> -</sense>
1.	A* 2020-05-25 03:18:26 Nicolas Maia
	Refs:	https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/二股
	Comments:	Wikipedia has this as "promiscuity".

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