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六大州六大洲
ろくだいしゅう
1. [n]
▶ the six continents
▶ Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia



History:
4. A 2023-03-21 23:03:53  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-03-21 21:37:39  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
│ 六大州     │ 900 │ 89.9% │
│ 六大洲     │  53 │  5.3% │ - add (daijs, koj, smk, sankoku)
│ ろくだいしゅう │  48 │  4.8% │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>六大洲</keb>
2. A 2019-07-03 10:22:30  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Oceania is not a continent
  Diff:
@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss>Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Oceania</gloss>
+<gloss>Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Australia</gloss>
1. A* 2019-07-03 07:53:54  Alan Cheng <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
daijr/s
  Comments:
"The six continents" isn't a common phrase where I'm from, so probably useful to clarify this entry too. 

Daijr/s use "Australia" in the definition for 五大州 but "Oceania" in their definition for 六大州. I wonder if we 
should keep that distinction or just make our definitions consistent.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +12,2 @@
-<gloss>the Six Continents</gloss>
+<gloss>the six continents</gloss>
+<gloss>Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe and Oceania</gloss>

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