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jmdict 1821370 Active (id: 2274967)
桂林
けいりん
1. [n] [rare]
▶ katsura forest
▶ beautiful forest



History:
5. A 2023-08-18 21:43:25  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr/s: カツラの林。また、美しい林。
koj: 桂の林。美しい林。
  Comments:
I don't think "katsura forest" should have been removed.
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<gloss>katsura forest</gloss>
4. A 2023-08-17 11:27:38  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Sorry, I meant to remove them. False positives from the Chinese city.
  Diff:
@@ -6,2 +5,0 @@
-<ke_pri>news2</ke_pri>
-<ke_pri>nf46</ke_pri>
@@ -11,2 +8,0 @@
-<re_pri>news2</re_pri>
-<re_pri>nf46</re_pri>
3. A* 2023-08-17 04:46:05  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
This still comes up as  [news2,nf46].  Can these be manually removed?  (Should they?)

I think I've seen statistics tags removed in the past where the term was a common proper name.

If you image-search 桂林, you'll get beautiful scenery. But the photos/paintings are specifically of the Chinese city/region, which just happens to be very beautiful.
2. A 2023-08-17 00:53:04  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Koj, Daijr/s
  Comments:
The kokugos have a second, probably archaic, sense.
  Diff:
@@ -17 +16,0 @@
-<gloss>katsura forest</gloss>
1. A* 2023-08-16 16:00:43  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
This entry currently has stats tags [news2,nf46].  I think these should be removed.  

See notes/refs on new jmnedict entry for 桂林, a city that is "One of the most popular tourist destinations in China". This undoubtedly explains the news frequency. (I don't think katsura forests are a common enough news topic...)

I strongly suspect this is [rare] for [1], but it's hard to prove a negative.  This is the kind of word where I can just imagine running around telling Japanese people it means "beautiful forest" and getting "eeeeeeehhhh、しらなかった" in reply.

If we're taking daijs at its word, everywhere seems to list a second definition from that source:
2 文人の仲間。

obviously *not* in sankoku, so it's at least not common
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<misc>&rare;</misc>

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