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意識不明
いしきふめい
1. [n,adj-no]
▶ (state of) unconsciousness



History:
4. A 2023-10-09 00:39:29  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr: 意識がなくなった状態。
  Comments:
I prefer this to "physical".
  Diff:
@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss>(physical) unconsciousness</gloss>
+<gloss>(state of) unconsciousness</gloss>
3. A* 2023-10-07 23:06:15  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
sankoku:意識不明の重体(critical state of unconsciousness, the 体重 itself is not unconscious), reverso, image search

This will be glossed as "unconscious" 95% of the time, but also: 意識不明に陥る

eijiro has an extensive list of collocations for unconscious humans.

Does not appear to mean "senselessness" (i.e. a senseless act), but if so, would be a second sense.

Does not appear to be metaphorical, i.e "unconsciously...".  This has been unclear to me for years, hence "(physical)." 

Interestingly, sankoku misidentifies as adj-na, perhaps influenced by 不明.  This is a weird term. It feels weird to think this could be a noun at all, but it seems to be...

That said, I don't necessarily object to reversing to [adj-no,n] and glossing as
(physically) unconscious

Most *不明 terms do this, but I am not sure with this one.

wordreference enters this under "unconsciousness" as well, though it is a bare bones entry.
  Diff:
@@ -13,2 +13 @@
-<gloss>unconscious</gloss>
-<gloss>senseless</gloss>
+<gloss>(physical) unconsciousness</gloss>
2. A 2022-08-01 02:15:29  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Remove unsupported yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -13 +12,0 @@
-<misc>&yoji;</misc>
1. A 2014-08-25 01:04:54  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kanji Haitani list
  Comments:
Adding yoji tagAdding yoji tag
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<misc>&yoji;</misc>

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