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熊出没注意クマ出没注意くま出没注意 [sK]
くましゅつぼつちゅうい
1. [exp]
《on trail signage, etc.》
▶ watch out for bears
▶ beware of bears



History:
8. A 2023-11-09 10:30:35  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
OK
7. A* 2023-11-09 05:55:47  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -19,3 +19,3 @@
-<s_inf>on a sign</s_inf>
-<gloss>Watch out for bears</gloss>
-<gloss>Beware of bears</gloss>
+<s_inf>on trail signage, etc.</s_inf>
+<gloss>watch out for bears</gloss>
+<gloss>beware of bears</gloss>
6. A 2023-04-04 02:09:00  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I'm comfortable with this. WWW images show it on a lot of T-shirts...
5. A* 2023-04-04 01:15:45  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Brian raised a topic on Github ([JMdictProject/JMdictIssues] Allowing inclusion of common road signage / placards as idiomatic (Issue #92)) arguing for including this as an entry.

My issue with 熊没出注意 is that it is 1) not to my knowledge officially used on road signage but on trail heads and the like (though I don't live in bear country and could be misinformed), and 2) is one of several forms used, albeit the most common in the ngrams at a combined 58%, 3) very compositional where 熊 could be replaced by any other animal you might want to warn for. That said looking at the ngrams and google images it's at least 90x more common than 猿/サル出没注意 so this point might be moot.

熊注意	3182	13.6%
熊出没注意	11851	50.8%
熊に注意	3472	14.9%
クマ注意	915	3.9%
クマ出没注意	1670	7.2%
クマに注意	2237	9.6%

It is true that adding it to JMdict would mean it would likely pop up at the top for searches for 熊出没注意 英語, but Tatoeba sentences are also indexed by services like Weblio so adding it there instead of here, as I suggested when deleting this, should have much the same effect.
4. D 2023-03-12 18:43:41  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
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