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jmdict 1555310 Active (id: 2286932)
みどりの日緑の日 [iK]
みどりのひ
1. [exp,n]
▶ Greenery Day (national holiday; May 4)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 1287080 国民の休日【こくみんのきゅうじつ】 1. citizen's holiday; by law, any weekday that falls between two other national holidays (e.g. between 1985 and 2006 May 4, now Greenery Day)



History:
4. A 2023-12-31 17:54:34  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
smk and meikyo display both みどりの日 and 緑の日 in their headword lines.

The kokugos say it's officially "みどりの日" by law, which is probably why we have the 緑 form marked as irregular.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬────────┬───────╮
│ みどりの日 │ 87,973 │ 90.0% │
│ 緑の日   │  9,261 │  9.5% │
│ みどりのひ │    469 │  0.5% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴────────┴───────╯

Web search results for "緑の日" bring up a lot of results related to St. Patrick's day.
  Comments:
I think it's worthwhile to keep it visible and tagged as irregular.
  Diff:
@@ -9 +9 @@
-<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
3. A* 2023-12-31 14:12:37 
  Diff:
@@ -9 +9 @@
-<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
2. A 2021-10-04 09:09:29  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A 2019-03-25 21:58:00  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -14,0 +15 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>

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