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jmdict 1371570 Active (id: 2295656)
水子供養
みずごくよう
1. [n]
▶ memorial service for a child who died before birth
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 1371560 水子 1. aborted, stillborn or miscarried foetus (fetus)



History:
2. A 2024-03-23 22:26:40  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
An "unborn child"  can still be alive.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>memorial service for an unborn child</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1371560">水子・1</xref>
+<gloss>memorial service for a child who died before birth</gloss>
1. A* 2024-03-23 12:27:31  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
「水子」の意味とは 水子供養とは、中絶・流産・死産などでこの世に生を受けることの出来なかった子供(水子)の供養のことを言います。
  Comments:
It's obvious it's for a dead baby from it being a memroial service, right?
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12 @@
-<gloss>memorial service to appease an aborted foetus</gloss>
+<gloss>memorial service for an unborn child</gloss>

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