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[exp,n]
▶ day of the ox in midsummer (during the hottest season) ▶ dog days of summer
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2. | A 2021-07-29 01:51:25 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
Refs: | Google - KM 土用丑の日 74477 - 281 土用丑 15226 - 329 土用の丑の日 1225695 - 0 土用の丑の 22896 - 1296 土用のうしの日 350 - 0 |
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Comments: | The Google n-gram counts are off the mark, probably because the old IPADIC lexicon has 丑の日 as a morpheme. The Unidic-based KM n-grams have the proportions right, but they stopped at 5 morphemes, hence the 0 counts. It seems 土用丑 is really an abbreviation of 土用丑の日, etc. |
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1. | A* 2021-07-28 12:50:37 Nicolas Maia | |
Refs: | https://kotobank.jp/word/土用丑の日-1380003 |