Meikyo vt and vi additions to n,vs entries
-*- via bulkupd.py -*-

@@ -15,0 +16 @@
+<pos>&vi;</pos>

"amount" doesn't really work with countable nouns. Trimming.

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<gloss>cutting down on the amount of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc.)</gloss>
+<gloss>reducing the number of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption, apprenticeship, etc.)</gloss>

daijr: 人数を減らすこと。特に、子供を奉公に出したりして、生計の負担を減らすこと。

daijs 棄老:
昔、口減らしのために、老人を山中などに捨てたという習俗。「棄老伝説」
daijr: 
... "昔、口減らしのためにこのような習俗があったという。" 
(nikk plays the odd one out and instead says: 昔、食物の不足を解消する方法として)

@@ -16,2 +16 @@
-<gloss>giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty)</gloss>
-<gloss g_type="lit">reducing the number of mouths</gloss>
+<gloss>cutting down on the amount of mouths one needs to feed (esp. by giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc.)</gloss>

I think this works, and is briefer.

@@ -16,2 +16,2 @@
-<gloss>giving up one or more of one's children by adoption or by sending them on apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty)</gloss>
-<gloss g_type="lit">reducing the amount of mouths</gloss>
+<gloss>giving up children for adoption or apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty)</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="lit">reducing the number of mouths</gloss>

daijs nikk

... maybe I made it overly wordy.

@@ -15,1 +15,3 @@
-<gloss>reducing the mouths to feed</gloss>
+<pos>&vs;</pos>
+<gloss>giving up one or more of one's children by adoption or by sending them on apprenticeship, etc. (out of poverty)</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="lit">reducing the amount of mouths</gloss>

I agree, (So do several kanwas.)

In KanjiDic 染 has the kun-readings 
  そ.める, -ぞ.め, -ぞめ, そ.まる, し.みる, じ.みる, し.み, -し.める
I think
  そ.まる、そ.める、し.みる、 し.み
should suffice.
The readings -ぞ.め, -ぞめ　are redundant
The reading じ.みる should be -じ.みる and is also redundant.
The reading -し.める is for 焚き染める and 煮染める which are quite rare.

G n-grams:
シミ	2308123
染み	701986
しみ	1867821

シミ is not explicitly in references, but Google images for it mostly show skin spots, whereas those for 染み are more general spots.

@@ -32,0 +33,2 @@
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
+<s_inf>esp. シミ</s_inf>

[fld=med]

@@ -15,0 +15,1 @@
+<field>&med;</field>

daijr koj
756,000 褥瘡
  7,640 蓐瘡

 97,200 じょくそう
 35,000 ジョクソウ

* Add spelling 蓐瘡 (much rarer, some dicts give it)
* BTW, despite 表外字, this appears to be generally written in kanji, not kana
(Learned from article on difficulties of nursing exam.)

@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>蓐瘡</keb>

are those really adjectival uses?  i'd translate them using "of" in both cases.  anyway, i'll retract this edit because i see eijiro has:
門脈の
【形】
    pylic

Really? 門脈の gets 300k hits: "門脈の血圧", "門脈の血流", etc.

koj, daij, gg5

@@ -12,1 +12,0 @@
-<pos>&adj-no;</pos>

G n-grams:
食べかす	30487
食べカス	20307
食べ滓	414
食べ粕	114

reordering

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>食べカス</keb>
+<keb>食べかす</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>食べかす</keb>
+<keb>食べカス</keb>

hits
(447k vs 325k)

@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>食べカス</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -15,0 +18,7 @@
+<re_restr>食べかす</re_restr>
+<re_restr>食べ滓</re_restr>
+<re_restr>食べ粕</re_restr>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>たべカス</reb>
+<re_restr>食べカス</re_restr>

GG5 (粕 entry)

@@ -9,0 +9,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>食べ粕</keb>

肝臓がん	61947
肝臓癌	26038
肝臓ガン	23829

@@ -9,0 +10,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>肝臓ガン</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -14,0 +18 @@
+<field>&med;</field>

gg5, more hits

@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>肝臓がん</keb>
+</k_ele>

Daijr, GG5

@@ -6,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>反し</keb>
@@ -21,0 +24,8 @@
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>barb (on a fishing hook)</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&n;</pos>
+<gloss>mixture of soy sauce, sugar and mirin</gloss>
+</sense>

tightening

@@ -17,1 +17,1 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1002640">お返し</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1002640">お返し・1</xref>

Entry created

ja wikt
http://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/鉄刺
1,160,000 てっさ
   36,600 鉄刺

* Add kanji spelling (clarifies the etymology)
* Add corresponding [uk] (kanji rare, as this is an informal term)
* Also, fix 鉄砲 ref to point to correct sense #

@@ -4,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>鉄刺</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -9,1 +12,2 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1438010">鉄砲</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1438010">鉄砲・3</xref>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>

Entry created

daijr, daijs, meikyo

@@ -14,1 +14,2 @@
-<pos>&adv;</pos>
+<pos>&adv-to;</pos>
+<pos>&adj-t;</pos>

Entry created

OK, splitting.

@@ -7,3 +7,0 @@
-<k_ele>
-<keb>法の筵</keb>
-</k_ele>
@@ -12,4 +9,0 @@
-<re_restr>法筵</re_restr>
-</r_ele>
-<r_ele>
-<reb>のりのむしろ</reb>
@@ -19,0 +12,1 @@
+<xref type="see" seq="2686320">法の筵・のりのむしろ</xref>

according to my refs, they'd probably have to remain apart since we're trying not to make merges on the basis of ik, io, etc.  if のりのむしろ is actually written as 法筵, i think it is io according to my refs

Daijr, Koj

Does this work as a merge?

@@ -7,0 +7,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>法の筵</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -9,0 +12,4 @@
+<re_restr>法筵</re_restr>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>のりのむしろ</reb>
@@ -12,0 +19,1 @@
+<field>&Buddh;</field>

daijs
http://kotobank.jp/word/法筵

That policy note is quite good.  And I agree that this standard adj+noun combo shouldn't be an entry.

The 運転手 example reminds me that another criterion can be the use of an unusual or irregular reading.
I'll add all this as a section in the Editorial policy page on the project wiki (http://www.edrdg.org/wiki/index.php/Editorial_policy)

See below.

Many thanks for the explanation. I am often wondering whether or not I should make a submission. Sometimes, it is clear from the combination of the kanji what is intended, but not so clear as to what the reading should be. Often, I find that one of the greatest values of your site is that one can get confirmation of the readings and proceed with one's work in the comfort of knowing that. This is especially so with more than two kanji, e.g., "運転手". As for me, the greater number of such entries, whether 2, 3 or more kanji, which show the readings is extremely valuable, but I do understand that there has to be a limit placed somewhere. Again many thanks.

There are several tests I apply when considering this sort of expression for inclusion:
1. is its meaning not obvious from the component parts (in this case it is obvious - it's how I'd translate it, WWWJDIC's text glosser explains it as 遠い + 旅, etc.)
2. is it not what you'd come up with when trying to say the English expression in Japanese (in this case it's exactly what I'd say for "distant journey".)
3. is it already in one or more dictionaries (no, it's in none apart from Eijiro. Everything is in Eijiro.)
4. is it very, very common, with squillions of hits. (No, it get 140k, which is about what I'd expect.) This is a rather weak test, and mainly used with idiomatic expressions.
Since it fails all the tests above, I'm inclined not  to include it.
If you were asking about 遠い国, it *might* be different, as it gets 1.4M hits, but even then I don't think it's worth it.

See below.

This gets some 140k Google hits. Maybe you will consider promotion because of the close association between the two factors. I appreciate that one can get distant + many things, but there is a ring of completeness in this expression.

Thanks

https://www.weblio.jp/content/大人の事情
大人の事情	107793
オトナの事情	7222
おとなの事情	1273

I thought our gloss was a bit off.

@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>オトナの事情</keb>
@@ -13 +16,5 @@
-<gloss>pretext for not revealing something (e.g. actual reason for one's failure, vested interest, etc.)</gloss>
+<s_inf>used when the actual reason for something cannot be disclosed</s_inf>
+<gloss>certain reasons</gloss>
+<gloss>certain circumstances</gloss>
+<gloss>professional constraints</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="lit">adult matters</gloss>

one could be created

4.4M hits

Wikip: 大人の都合 （おとなのつごう）ともいう。  
Do we have an entry for 大人の都合 too (640k hits)?

@@ -11,0 +11,1 @@
+<pos>&exp;</pos>
@@ -12,2 +13,1 @@
-<pos>&exp;</pos>
-<gloss>when said as pretext for not reveal actual reason for the one's failure or vested interest</gloss>
+<gloss>pretext for not revealing something (e.g. actual reason for one's failure, vested interest, etc.)</gloss>

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/大人の事情

ＫＯＤ追加語彙, Eijiro, NEC Eng. glossary

@@ -11,0 +12 @@
+<misc>&proverb;</misc>

removed dubious の in kanji part

@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-<keb>大人は赤子の心のを失わず</keb>
+<keb>大人は赤子の心を失わず</keb>

Koj, Daijr, GG5. The first two have full entries, GG5 has it in the 大人/たいじん entry. (The readings of 大人 and 赤子 are from the refs.)

24k hits. Probably better here than in Tatoeba.

@@ -5,0 +6 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>

プラス螺子	24
プラスねじ	1486
プラスネジ	5893

@@ -8,0 +9,4 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>プラスネジ</reb>
+<re_nokanji/>

Daijr, GG5, 新和英中辞典, etc.

Also written プラス捻子 (7 hits).

for consistwncy w other ネジ entries

@@ -5 +5 @@
-<keb>十字ネジ</keb>
+<keb>十字ねじ</keb>
@@ -8 +8 @@
-<keb>十字ねじ</keb>
+<keb>十字ネジ</keb>

十字ねじ	106
十字螺子	No matches
十字ネジ	130

@@ -3,0 +4,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>十字ネジ</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -8,0 +12 @@
+<ke_inf>&rK;</ke_inf>
@@ -15 +19 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2686150">プラス螺子・プラスねじ</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2686150">プラスねじ</xref>

GG5, ＫＯＤ追加語彙

十字螺子 (43 hits).

GG5, NEC Eng list, Mech Eng list

More formal. 4k hits.

nikk, eij

koj, daij, gg5

wiki, nikk

@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+<field>&med;</field>

koj, gg5

肝細胞癌	63096
肝細胞がん	18568
肝細胞ガン	4633

@@ -9,0 +10,3 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>肝細胞ガン</keb>
+</k_ele>
@@ -14,0 +18 @@
+<field>&med;</field>

daij, gg5

koj, eij

koj, daij, gg5

@@ -16 +16 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1391110">染み・しみ・2</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1391110">シミ・2</xref>

GG5, etc.

May as well keep "liver spot" - the JEs have it.

@@ -19,0 +20 @@
+<gloss>liver spot</gloss>

This matches the Japanese language definitions for 肝斑. In particular, must be on the face, and no explicit link to UV light. (it is a possible factor)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459271/
Melasma is a common skin problem caused by brown to gray-brown patches on the face. Most people get it on their cheeks, chin, nose bridge, forehead, and above the upper lip. 

https://www.osmosis.org/answers/chloasma
Chloasma, more commonly known as melasma, is an acquired pigmentary disorder of the skin, characterized by areas of discoloration known as hyperpigmentation. 

https://www.affiliateddermatologists.com/brown-spots-vs-melasma/
...
"Melasma is an entirely different condition. "

An analogous Japanese website distinguishing 老人性色素斑 from 肝斑.  Causes are different, treatments are different, and treating for the wrong one may exacerbate the other.
https://www.hibiya-skin.com/column/202011_02.html

"chloasma" is a correct gloss. "liver spot" is not a synonym for "chloasma" in English.  This has to be the strangest false-cognate (肝+斑 != liver spot) I have ever seen.

Correct matches for "liver spots" are the two terms I just added: 老人性色素斑 and 日光性黒子 (and maybe others, but not this).

@@ -16,0 +17,2 @@
+<field>&med;</field>
+<gloss>melasma</gloss>
@@ -18 +19,0 @@
-<gloss>liver spot</gloss>

@@ -16,1 +16,1 @@
-<xref type="see">染み</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1391110">染み・しみ・2</xref>

gg5, eij

はるのど

eij, gg5 (肛門直腸がん)

useful for E-J at least

wiki, gg5

傷テープ	2614

The online images results for this are quite different from those of 絆創膏. It's a mix of various types of medical tape and plasters. I don't think it refers to anything specific.

@@ -16,4 +16,2 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1281230">膏薬・こうやく・1</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="2219400">硬膏・こうこう</xref>
-<xref type="see" seq="1570430">絆創膏・ばんそうこう</xref>
-<gloss>first-aid plaster</gloss>
+<gloss>medical tape</gloss>
+<gloss>surgical tape</gloss>

We (60+yo Australians) tend to call them "bandaids" (TM).

most north americans would have no idea what a 'plaster' is in this context.

@@ -20,0 +20,1 @@
+<gloss>adhesive bandage</gloss>

@@ -5,1 +5,1 @@
-<keb>キズテープ</keb>
+<keb>傷テープ</keb>
@@ -8,0 +8,3 @@
+<reb>きずテープ</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
@@ -9,0 +12,1 @@
+<re_nokanji/>
@@ -12,1 +16,4 @@
-<gloss>First aid plaster</gloss>
+<xref type="see" seq="1281230">膏薬・こうやく・1</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2219400">硬膏・こうこう</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1570430">絆創膏・ばんそうこう</xref>
+<gloss>first-aid plaster</gloss>

Unidic xrefs キモヲタ, etc, to キモオタ. Google n-grams:
キモオタ	57411
きもおた	635
キモヲタ	79293
きもをた	275

@@ -4,0 +5,3 @@
+<reb>キモヲタ</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
@@ -5,0 +9,6 @@
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>きもおた</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>きもをた</reb>
@@ -10 +18,0 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="1034420">オタク</xref>

http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/キモオタ

@@ -9,1 +9,2 @@
-<xref type="see" seq="2686310">キモいオタク</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="2013005">キモい</xref>
+<xref type="see" seq="1034420">オタク</xref>
@@ -11,1 +12,4 @@
-<gloss>uber-geek</gloss>
+<misc>&sl;</misc>
+<misc>&derog;</misc>
+<gloss>creepy geek</gloss>
+<gloss>disgusting otaku</gloss>

as an abbreviation, i guess it's better separate