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木食い虫木食虫木蠹虫 [rK] [rK] 木喰い虫 [sK] 木喰虫 [sK] 木蠧虫 [sK] [sK] きくい虫 [sK]
きくいむしキクイムシ (nokanji)
1. [n] [uk]
▶ bark beetle (Scolytidae spp.)
2. [n] [uk]
▶ gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
▶ grain borer
▶ wood borer



History:
2. A 2023-12-16 01:44:12  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limnoria_lignorum
GG5 and other JEs only have sense 2.
  Comments:
I think 蠹 could be sK.
  Diff:
@@ -53,0 +54,2 @@
+<gloss>grain borer</gloss>
+<gloss>wood borer</gloss>
1. A* 2023-12-15 23:52:49  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
蠧 (士 on top) is an itaiji for 蠹 (士 + 口 on top).
The kanken people (kanjipedia) say this word can be written with the kanji by itself.
https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0005127100
https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0006472200

〈木/き/キ〉〈食(い)/喰(い)/蠧/蠹/くい/クイ〉〈虫/むし/ムシ〉/蠧/蠹

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーー─┬───────┬───────╮
│ 木食い虫  │   510 │  6.3% │
│ 木食虫   │    50 │  0.6% │ - ... ... (daijirin, smk, kanjipedia)
│ 木蠹虫   │     0 │  0.0% │ - add, rK (kanjipedia)
│ 蠹     │   825 │ 10.1% │ - add, rK (kanjipedia; I doubt the n-gram counts are usages of this word)
│ 木喰い虫  │   308 │  3.8% │ - add, sK
│ 木喰虫   │   169 │  2.1% │ - add, sK
│ 木蠧虫   │     0 │  0.0% │ - ...  sK (daijirin, but this is an itaiji form)
│ 蠧     │   325 │  4.0% │ - add, sK (itaiji)
│ きくい虫  │   390 │  4.8% │ - add, sK
│ キクイ虫  │   200 │  2.5% │
│ 木くい虫  │    55 │  0.7% │
│ キクイムシ │ 5,224 │ 64.1% │
│ きくいむし │    99 │  1.2% │
╰─ーーーーー─┴───────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -10,0 +11,16 @@
+<keb>木蠹虫</keb>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>蠹</keb>
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>木喰い虫</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>木喰虫</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
@@ -11,0 +28,9 @@
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>蠧</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>きくい虫</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -26,0 +52 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

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