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jmdict 1436780 Active (id: 2276888)
逓信 [news2,nf22]
ていしん [news2,nf22]
1. [n] [hist]
▶ communications (e.g. post, telegraph)
2. [n] [hist,abbr]
▶ Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2146330 逓信省 1. Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)



History:
6. A 2023-09-14 02:21:45  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
5. A* 2023-09-13 23:58:27  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I'm not sure if 逓信 by itself is historical. obs might be better.
Daijs and nikk have sense 2.
  Diff:
@@ -17,0 +18,7 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<xref type="see" seq="2146330">逓信省</xref>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
+<misc>&abbr;</misc>
+<gloss>Ministry of Communications and Transportation (dissolved in 1949)</gloss>
4. A 2023-09-12 12:02:34  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Demoting news1. I don't think that xref is appropriate.
  Diff:
@@ -6 +6 @@
-<ke_pri>news1</ke_pri>
+<ke_pri>news2</ke_pri>
@@ -11 +11 @@
-<re_pri>news1</re_pri>
+<re_pri>news2</re_pri>
@@ -16 +15,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2146330">逓信省</xref>
3. A* 2023-09-12 11:47:50  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
ngrams(tiny):
逓信	68609	  
逓信省	18340	 [hist] 
逓信病院	10493	 legacy name of existing institution
逓信委員会	7378	  [hist]
逓信総合博物館	7118	  actual museum
逓信大臣	4509	 [hist]
...
  Comments:
Suggest removing [news1].  ngrams disagree, and a current search of mainichi.jp doesn't return much, except historical articles.
site:mainichi.jp "逓信"  ("about 432 articles", not much vs. [news1])

The other terms in jmdict 逓信大臣 and 逓信省 are both [hist].  Odd to suggest making an entire once-common noun [hist], but sankoku does not even have an entry for this term. 

(by comparison, sankoku does still have 逓減, for example)

The (e.g.) is already trying to point at [hist], it seems.

Still survives in place names, such as 逓信病院
https://www.hospital.japanpost.jp/about/index.html

But it doesn't mean "communications" here.  the gloss is "Tokyo Teishin Hospital". 

xref gives context for usage("dissolved in 1949", in particular), without further complicating the gloss.
  Diff:
@@ -15,0 +16,2 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2146330">逓信省</xref>
+<misc>&hist;</misc>
2. A 2021-09-22 23:33:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
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