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jmdict 1235400 Active (id: 1930422)
[news2,nf45] [oK]
きょう [news2,nf45]
1. (凶 only) [n]
▶ bad luck
▶ bad fortune
2. [n]
《usu. 凶》
▶ evil
▶ wickedness



History:
4. A 2016-04-30 13:26:31  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijr (only has sense 1, and has both kanji with 兇 deprecated.)
Koj (really only has sense 2 for 兇, but what it gives  is really kanwa stuff.)
  Comments:
Obviously all very imprecise.
3. A* 2016-04-30 09:13:10  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Kanjidic defines 兇 as wickedness.
All the compounds that have 兇 variants refer to wicked deeds, not to misfortune in general.
  Comments:
I guess that in careful pre-WWII orthography sense 1 was 凶 and sense 2 was 兇.
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19 @@
+<stagk>凶</stagk>
@@ -24,0 +26 @@
+<s_inf>usu. 凶</s_inf>
2. A 2016-04-30 00:48:11  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2016-04-29 14:45:43  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +11 @@
+<ke_inf>&oK;</ke_inf>

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