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壺 [spec1,news2,nf20] ；壷 [spec1] ；壼 [sK]
【つぼ [spec1,news2,nf20] ；ツボ [sk] 】

[n]
▶ pot
▶ jar
▶ vase

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 1512630 便壺【べんつぼ】 1. night-soil vault; clay pot used to collect feces in an outhouse

[n]
▶ dice cup

[n]
▶ depression
▶ basin (e.g. of a waterfall)

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1415550 滝壺 1. plunge basin; waterfall lake; plunge pool; basin under a waterfall

[n] [uk]
▶ aim
▶ what one wants
▶ the mark

Cross references:
	⇒ see: 1825770 思うつぼ 1. one's wishes; one's expectations

[n] [uk]
▶ key point (of a conversation, etc.)
▶ essence

[n] [uk]
▶ acupuncture point
▶ moxibustion point
▶ pressure point

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2125790 つぼを心得る【つぼをこころえる】 1. to understand the essence; to catch the main points

[n] [uk]
《oft. written as ツボ》
▶ position on the fingerboard (of a shamisen, koto, etc.)

[n] [arch]
▶ target (when aiming an arrow)

History:

17.	A 2024-08-24 23:20:42 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Dropping archaic readings.
	Diff:	@@ -26,10 +26 @@ -<re_nokanji/> -<re_pri>spec1</re_pri> -</r_ele> -<r_ele> -<reb>つほ</reb> -<re_inf>&ok;</re_inf> -</r_ele> -<r_ele> -<reb>つふ</reb> -<re_inf>&ok;</re_inf> +<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf> @@ -77 +68 @@ -<s_inf>often ツボ</s_inf> +<s_inf>oft. written as ツボ</s_inf>
16.	A* 2024-08-23 07:47:23 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	壺 931981 壷 719876 壼 7801
	Comments:	Can probably be hidden.
	Diff:	@@ -16 +16 @@ -<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf> +<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
15.	A 2020-06-02 18:43:09 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, daijr
	Comments:	I don't think "bullseye" is a great gloss. Moving arch sense to bottom.
	Diff:	@@ -38,0 +39 @@ +<gloss>pot</gloss> @@ -40 +40,0 @@ -<gloss>pot</gloss> @@ -49 +49,30 @@ -<gloss>depression (i.e. the basin of a waterfall)</gloss> +<xref type="see" seq="1415550">滝壺</xref> +<gloss>depression</gloss> +<gloss>basin (e.g. of a waterfall)</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<xref type="see" seq="1825770">思うつぼ・1</xref> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<gloss>aim</gloss> +<gloss>what one wants</gloss> +<gloss>the mark</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<gloss>key point (of a conversation, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>essence</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<gloss>acupuncture point</gloss> +<gloss>moxibustion point</gloss> +<gloss>pressure point</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<misc>&uk;</misc> +<s_inf>often ツボ</s_inf> +<gloss>position on the fingerboard (of a shamisen, koto, etc.)</gloss> @@ -56,23 +84,0 @@ -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<xref type="see" seq="1825770">思うつぼ</xref> -<misc>&uk;</misc> -<gloss g_type="fig">bull's-eye</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<misc>&uk;</misc> -<gloss>key point (of a conversation, etc.)</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<misc>&uk;</misc> -<gloss>acupuncture point</gloss> -<gloss>moxibustion point</gloss> -</sense> -<sense> -<pos>&n;</pos> -<misc>&uk;</misc> -<s_inf>often ツボ</s_inf> -<gloss>nodes on a fingerboard (of a shamisen, etc.)</gloss> -</sense>
14.	A* 2020-06-02 14:45:54 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -60 +60 @@ -<gloss>(figurative) bull's-eye</gloss> +<gloss g_type="fig">bull's-eye</gloss>
13.	A 2018-04-07 20:04:02 Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	G n-grams - see below
	Diff:	@@ -7,0 +8 @@ +<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri> @@ -10,0 +12 @@ +<ke_pri>spec1</ke_pri> @@ -19,0 +22 @@ +<re_pri>spec1</re_pri> @@ -23,0 +27 @@ +<re_pri>spec1</re_pri>
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12.	A 2015-05-12 01:24:35 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
11.	A* 2015-05-11 10:50:40 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	The later (2007) and much larger Google n-gram collection has 壺 ahead: 壷 719876 壺 931981 壼 7801 つぼ 1287758 ツボ 3981286 Also all my references only have 壺. It's odd - if you look up 壷 in the online KOD, you get taken to the Daijirin entry for 壺. They must just map the kanji together.
	Comments:	I'm reversing the order (undoing a change I made 5 years ago.) I think the "uk" additions are correct.
	Diff:	@@ -5 +5 @@ -<keb>壷</keb> +<keb>壺</keb> @@ -10 +10 @@ -<keb>壺</keb> +<keb>壷</keb>
10.	A* 2015-05-11 09:55:00
	Comments:	probably safe to have these figurative senses as [uk] as well.
	Diff:	@@ -54,0 +55 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -58,0 +60 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc> @@ -68,0 +71 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
9.	A* 2015-05-11 09:17:43
	Refs:	- prog, eij kana for all senses n-grams 壷 22462 壺 20621 壼 396 つぼ 18216 つほ 144 つふ 141 ツボ 73881
	Comments:	katakana surprisingly common. not sure why. I'm getting an overwhelming amount of acupuncture results on an image search for both つぼ and ツボ, which is why I'm not adding [uk] elsewhere, even though I feel it should be added
	Diff:	@@ -19,0 +20,4 @@ +</r_ele> +<r_ele> +<reb>ツボ</reb> +<re_nokanji/> @@ -58,0 +63 @@ +<misc>&uk;</misc>
8.	A 2011-05-20 06:22:06 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Yes, I think parentheses would be confusing also. An abbreviation is much more clear.
7.	A* 2011-05-19 23:52:47 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I think the "iK" is quite clear. Putting headword items in parentheses is a good way of messing up data, and putting in cross-references for what are in fact typos would be poor lexicographic practice. An alternative would be to "demote" the 壼 to a comment such as "sometimes written 壼", but then it gets skipped in regular searching. There are many "iK" instances. I think the handling is appropriate.
6.	A* 2011-05-19 15:09:52 Francis
	Refs:	See below.
	Comments:	Your comments match my original source notes, but which because of your entry I then thought may have been wrong. I wonder if it would then perhaps be better to put the wrong kanji in brackets with a note that it is sometimes wronly used in contection with "つぼ" and to avoid confusion perhaps make a cross-reference to a new entry for its correct meaning?
5.	A* 2011-05-19 00:20:42 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	(a) the reason is that 壼 is the wrong kanji for つぼ. Hence the "iK" tag. It just happens to look like 壺. This entry is essentially about つぼ. (b) once you get past the first page of a display of entries, there is a chance that an entry may get displayed again, if it happens to be indexed twice (e.g. for different parts of it.) WWWJDIC can only pass minimal information from one page to another, and keeping track of all the entries displayed so far is too much for a "stateless" server. HTH. (I'll leave this entry open for a day or so.)
4.	A* 2011-05-18 21:48:41 Francis
	Refs:	See below.
	Comments:	I have not taken the step of making an alteration, but I wonder why there is no reference to "palace grounds" or "壼コン palace corridor or passageway" as appears in your own file on explanations for kanji. Even a cross-reference to this is not shown. In addition, according to my searches, the above entry is repeated in its entirety in your site. When one gets the original search for "つぼ"　up comes the above as the second entry. Then when one explores "more" the entry is repeated again after three pages.
3.	A 2010-08-20 10:59:40 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I'll move that one. I will see if I can generate a list. If it's not too long, I;ll do them.
	Diff:	@@ -4,3 +4,0 @@ -<k_ele> -<keb>壺</keb> -</k_ele> @@ -11,0 +8,3 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>壺</keb>
2.	A* 2010-08-19 01:37:41 Rene Malenfant <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	indeed it does. Jim, should the usage tags or the headwords be switched for this word? is it possible to do an automated search to detect when usage tags aren't on the first headword/reading? that's a pretty good indicator that one or the other is wrong.
1.	A* 2010-08-18 23:43:46 Scott
	Comments:	Given the similarity, I'll add this as an iK. Google search for 壼　つぼ yields a good number of hits
	Diff:	@@ -11,0 +11,4 @@ +</k_ele> +<k_ele> +<keb>壼</keb> +<ke_inf>&iK;</ke_inf>

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