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滄海遺珠滄海の遺珠
そうかいのいしゅ
1. [n] [yoji,rare]
▶ talented person unbeknownst to the world



History:
5. A 2022-08-05 22:58:02  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
4. A* 2022-08-05 21:54:57  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
滄海の遺珠 gets less than 20 n-gram counts, but I think we can infer that it's a valid form by comparison with similar yoji (鶏群一鶴;貧者一灯;九牛一毛).
WWW search results for "滄海の遺珠" bring up some hits in proverb dictionaries.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーーー─┬────╮
│ 滄海遺珠     │ 23 │
│ 滄海の遺珠    │  0 │
╰─ーーーーーーーー─┴────╯
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>滄海の遺珠</keb>
3. A 2022-08-05 21:43:13  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
We don't usually include lit glosses on yoji entries.
  Diff:
@@ -15 +14,0 @@
-<gloss g_type="lit">blue sea lost pearl</gloss>
2. A 2022-08-04 20:44:35  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
滄海遺珠	23
  Diff:
@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<misc>&rare;</misc>
1. A* 2022-08-04 20:27:23 
  Refs:
https://yoji.jitenon.jp/yojid/1826.html
「読み方	そうかいのいしゅ
意味	世に知られずに埋もれている立派な人物や有能な人材。(...)」

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