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紐解く繙くひも解く [sK]
ひもとく
1. [v5k,vt]
▶ to read (a book)
▶ to open (a book) to read
2. [v5k,vt]
▶ to unravel (e.g. a mystery)
▶ to discover (the truth)

Conjugations


History:
5. A 2023-05-28 06:34:57  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2023-05-28 04:12:28  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ を紐解いて  │ 33,066 │ 60.6% │
│ をひも解いて │  6,070 │ 11.1% │ - add, sK
│ を繙いて   │  1,667 │  3.1% │
│ をひもといて │ 13,787 │ 25.3% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ひも解く</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
3. A 2018-07-26 23:36:43  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2018-07-26 20:18:17  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijs (sense 2): "書物などで調べて真実を明らかにする。「歴史を―・く」"
G n-grams:
繙く	12113
紐解く	75834
ひもとく	33610
  Comments:
Added sense.
"Untie a scroll" is not a separate sense. I don't think we even need it as a gloss.
Not intransitive.
Reordered kanji forms.
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>繙く</keb>
+<keb>紐解く</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>紐解く</keb>
+<keb>繙く</keb>
@@ -15 +14,0 @@
-<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -17 +16,2 @@
-<gloss>to peruse (a book)</gloss>
+<gloss>to read (a book)</gloss>
+<gloss>to open (a book) to read</gloss>
@@ -21 +20,0 @@
-<pos>&vi;</pos>
@@ -23 +22,2 @@
-<gloss>to untie a scroll</gloss>
+<gloss>to unravel (e.g. a mystery)</gloss>
+<gloss>to discover (the truth)</gloss>
1. A 2004-03-30 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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