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一弦琴一絃琴
いちげんきん
1. [n]
▶ single-stringed Japanese zither
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2431930 須磨琴【すまごと】 1. single-stringed Japanese zither



History:
1. A 2024-01-26 00:14:35  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5 likes the 絃 form. All the kokugos (daijr/s, koj, sankoku, meikyo, iwakoku, etc.) and prog prefer the 弦 form.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 一絃琴    │ 2,724 │ 49.4% │
│ 一弦琴    │ 2,651 │ 48.0% │ - moving up
│ いちげんきん │   144 │  2.6% │
╰─ーーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>一絃琴</keb>
+<keb>一弦琴</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>一弦琴</keb>
+<keb>一絃琴</keb>

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