| Headword 1 | 過ぎたるは及ばざるがごとし |
| Headword 2 | 過ぎたるは猶及ばざるが如し |
| Reading 1 | すぎたるはおよばざるがごとし |
| Part-of-speech | exp |
| English 1 | The last drop makes the cup run over |
| English 2 | too much of a good thing |
| English 3 | Less is more. |
| Reference | http://www16.big.or.jp/~ogura1/proverb.html
(I got 77,000 hits on a Google search of the phrase. The above link lists pairs of English and Japanese proverbs, and gives this as "Less is more".) |
| Comment | A friend used this expression to me when trying to explain why more is not necesserily better. In explaining, she wrote: 腹八分目
Note: WWWJDIC already has an incomplete entry for the similar "headword" 過ぎたるは猶及ばざるが如し with the additional character "nao". Apparently same meaning. |
| Name | Howard Hasik |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment | Needs to be two entries as the readings differ. |
| Headword 1 | 木簡 | ||
| Reading 1 | もっかん | ||
| Reading 2 | もくかん | ||
| Part-of-speech | n | ||
| English 1 | narrow, long, and thin pieces of wood stringed together that were used to write on in ancient times | ||
| Cross-reference | 竹簡 | ||
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?id=1939330-0000&kind=jn&mode=5
新たに発見された、木簡上の和歌について is a posting of "Kouji Ueshiba" Submission Type | new | (sendNotJS) Send submission |
| Editorial Comment | Yes, I saw that posting. |
| Headword 1 | 保体 |
| Reading 1 | ほたい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| Misc | abbr |
| English 1 | health and physical education |
| Cross-reference | 保健体育 |
| Reference | 保体・・・保健体育。主に性？育、人体の仕組み等
・・・と書いてあったんです。「？」の字は読めなかったけどw |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 打ち消す(P);打消す(P) [うちけす] /(v5s,vt) to deny/to negate/to contradict/(P)/ (1609310) |
| Headword 1 | 打ち消す |
| Headword 2 | 打消す |
| Reading 1 | うちけす |
| Part-of-speech | v5s,vt |
| English 1 | (1) to deny |
| English 2 | to contradict |
| English 3 | (2) to negate (esp. a sound) |
| English 4 | to drown out |
| Reference | koj, daijr, daijs, prog, nc, alc
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 所謂 [いわゆる] /(adj-pn,adv) what is called/as it is called/the so-called/so to speak/(P)/ (1343150) |
| Headword 1 | 所謂 |
| Reading 1 | いわゆる |
| Part-of-speech | adj-pn |
| English 1 | what is called |
| English 2 | as it is called |
| English 3 | the so-called |
| English 4 | so to speak |
| Comment | an adverb? i see nothing in the kokugo dictionaries or tanaka to support that
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | お祝い(P);御祝い [おいわい] /(n) (See 祝い) congratulation/celebration/(P)/ (1612770) |
| Headword 1 | お祝い |
| Headword 2 | 御祝い |
| Reading 1 | おいわい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (See 祝い) (hon) congratulation/congratulations |
| English 2 | celebration |
| English 3 | festival |
| English 4 | congratulatory gift |
| Comment | "gift" and an (hon)/(pol) tag need to be added, but i'm not sure how you want to split the senses
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 祝い [いわい] /(n) (See お祝い) celebration/festival/(P)/ (1337370) |
| Headword 1 | 祝い |
| Headword 2 | 祝 |
| Reading 1 | いわい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (See お祝い) congratulation/congratulations |
| English 2 | celebration |
| English 3 | festival |
| English 4 | congratulatory gift |
| Comment | and synch with お祝い with new headword
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | お祝い(P);御祝い [おいわい] /(n) (See 祝い) congratulation/celebration/(P)/ (1612770) |
| Headword 1 | お祝い |
| Headword 2 | 御祝い |
| Headword 3 | お祝 |
| Headword 4 | 御祝 |
| Reading 1 | おいわい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (See 祝い) congratulation |
| English 2 | celebration |
| Reference | daijisen |
| Comment | and add い-free headwords here too |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一旦 [いったん] /(adv) once/for a moment/one morning/temporarily/(P)/ (1164650) |
| Headword 1 | 一旦 |
| Reading 1 | いったん |
| Part-of-speech | adv,n |
| English 1 | (1) once |
| English 2 | (2) for a moment |
| English 3 | temporarily |
| English 4 | (n) (3) (arch) one morning |
| Reference | koj, daijr, daijs, prog, nc
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | ピアス /(n) earrings (wasei: pierce)/(P)/ (1106360) |
| Headword 1 | ピアス |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (1) earrings (wasei: pierce) (from pierced earrings) |
| English 2 | (2) (body) piercings |
| Reference | あっ！おまえピアスまで開けてんのかよ！！
|
| Comment | N.B. From context the above referred to body piercings. |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一体 [いったい] /(int) (1) what on earth?/really?/(n) (2) one object/one body/(adv) (3) generally/(P)/ (1164510) |
| Headword 1 | 一体 |
| Reading 1 | いったい |
| Part-of-speech | adv |
| English 1 | (1) ...the heck (e.g. "what the heck?") |
| English 2 | ...in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") |
| English 3 | ...on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") |
| English 4 | (n) (2) one object/one body |
| English 5 | unity |
| English 6 | (3) one form/one style |
| English 7 | (4) one Buddhist image (or carving, etc.) |
| English 8 | (n-adv) (5) (See 一体に) generally/in general |
| Reference | koj, daijr, daijs, prog, nc |
| Comment | shouldn't this "(int)" be an (adv)?
i prefer to translate this as "... the heck", "... the hell", etc. |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 一体に |
| Reading 1 | いったいに |
| Part-of-speech | adv |
| English 1 | generally |
| English 2 | in general |
| Cross-reference | 一体 |
| Reference | daijirin, meikyo |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一体全体;いったい全体 [いったいぜんたい] /(adv) whatever (is the matter)/what on earth?/ (1164540) |
| Headword 1 | 一体全体 |
| Headword 2 | いったい全体 |
| Reading 1 | いったいぜんたい |
| Part-of-speech | adv |
| English 1 | (emph. form of 一体) ...the heck (e.g. "what the heck?") |
| English 2 | ...in the world (e.g. "why in the world?") |
| English 3 | ...on earth (e.g. "who on earth?") |
| Comment | i think it's best to remove "whatever".
"whatever" would be "いったい何", which might not be a bad entry on its own, but having it here is a misleading usage IMO |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一体な [いったいな] /(int) what on earth?/ (1632840) |
| Headword 1 | 一体な |
| Reading 1 | いったいな |
| Part-of-speech | int |
| English 1 | what on earth? |
| Comment | i may be demonstrating my ignorance of conversational japanese with this one, but is this actually used as an (int)?
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | Hmmm. That's an old entry. I suspect it should be 一体なぜ... |
| Current Entry | 一生 [いっしょう(P);いっせい] /(n-adv,n-t) whole life/a lifetime/all through life/one existence/a generation/an age/the whole world/the era/(P)/ (1576200) |
| Headword 1 | 一生 |
| Reading 1 | いっしょう |
| Part-of-speech | n-adv,n-t |
| English 1 | whole life |
| English 2 | a lifetime |
| English 3 | all through life |
| English 4 | one existence |
| English 5 | a generation |
| English 6 | an age |
| English 7 | the whole world |
| English 8 | the era |
| Comment | i see absolutely nothing to support a reading of いっせい except 一生面(いっせいめん), but the base of that word is 生面 with an added 一, not 一生 with an added 面.
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | Possibly confusion with 一世. |
| Current Entry | 万死一生 [ばんしいっしょう;ばんしいっせい] /(n) advancing in the face of death/having a narrow escape from the jaw of death/ (2032640) |
| Headword 1 | 万死一生 |
| Reading 1 | ばんしいっしょう |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | advancing in the face of death |
| English 2 | having a narrow escape from the jaw of death |
| Comment | likewise for this. note that none of the other edict entries for these expressions use -せい:
九死一生 【きゅうしいっしょう】 (n) narrow escape from the jaw of death [G][GI][S][A] 九死に一生 【きゅうしにいっしょう】 (n) narrow escape from death [G][GI][S][A] 後生一生 【ごしょういっしょう】 (n) extremely important or once in a lifetime (request); only once in one's lifetime [G][GI][S][A] 十死一生 【じっしいっしょう】 (n) (1) narrow escape from the jaws of death; (2) there being barely a chance of escaping death [G][GI][S][A] |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一生の真盛り [いっしょうのまっさかり] /(n) the noontide of life/ (1163990) |
| Headword 1 | 一生の |
| Reading 1 | いっしょうの |
| Part-of-speech | adj-no |
| English 1 | lifelong |
| English 2 | (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life |
| Comment | all hits for the original seem edict-based. this new version is in the daijisen entry for 一生 and daijirin gives it its own entry as 一生の
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | I'll put it into the 一生 entry. |
| Current Entry | 一生の真盛り [いっしょうのまっさかり] /(n) the noontide of life/ (1163990) |
| Headword 1 | 一生の |
| Reading 1 | いっしょうの |
| Part-of-speech | adj-pn |
| English 1 | lifelong |
| English 2 | (the only, the greatest, etc.) of one's life |
| Comment | and i guess i screwed the PoS.
should this be (adj-pn)? (adj-f)? |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一層 [いっそう(P);いっそ(P)] /(n-adv,n) (uk) much more/still more/all the more/(would) rather/sooner/might as well/(P)/ (1164340) |
| Headword 1 | 一層 |
| Reading 1 | いっそう |
| Reading 2 | いっそ |
| Part-of-speech | adv |
| English 1 | (1) (uk) much more |
| English 2 | still more |
| English 3 | all the more |
| English 4 | (would) rather |
| English 5 | sooner |
| English 6 | might as well |
| English 7 | (n) (2) (いっそう only) single layer (or storey, etc.) |
| Reference | koj, daijr, daijs
|
| Comment | fiddled with the pos as well
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 到る [いたる] /(v5r,vi) to attain/ (1449850) |
| Headword 1 | 到る |
| Reading 1 | いたる |
| Part-of-speech | v5r,vi |
| English 1 | to attain |
| Comment | delete--merge
all dics have いた・る【至る・到る】 |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 至る [いたる] /(v5r,vi) (1) (文語) to arrive at (e.g. a decision)/to reach (a stage)/(2) to lead to (a place)/to get to/(3) (arch) to come/to arrive/(P)/ (1311870) |
| Headword 1 | 至る |
| Headword 2 | 到る |
| Reading 1 | いたる |
| Part-of-speech | v5r,vi |
| English 1 | (1) (文語) to arrive at (e.g. a decision) |
| English 2 | to reach (a stage) |
| English 3 | (2) to lead to (a place) |
| English 4 | to get to |
| English 5 | (3) (arch) to come |
| English 6 | to arrive |
| Comment | ooh. i see a bungo tag has appeared. is this new?
|
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
Not really. It's a comment really. |
| Current Entry | 位置(P);位地 [いち] /(n,vs) place/situation/position/location/(P)/ (1587310) |
| Headword 1 | 位置 |
| Headword 2 | 位地 |
| Reading 1 | いち |
| Part-of-speech | n,vs |
| English 1 | place |
| English 2 | situation |
| English 3 | position |
| English 4 | location |
| Reference | koj, daijr, daijs |
| Comment | no kokugo dictionary combines these.
位置 = position (i.e. location, etc.) 位地 = position (i.e. rank, status, etc.) meikyo keeps the entries separate, but has: い‐ち【位地】ヰ― 〔文〕くらい。地位。 い‐ち【位置】ヰ― 1)物や人が、全体または他との関係で占める、具体的な場所。「地図で今いる―を確かめる」「地震で机の―がずれる」「所定の―に着く」 2)物事が、全体または他との関係で占めると認められる、抽象的な場所。「本件の歴史的―を考究する」 *****3)人が社会や組織の中で置かれている状態。地位。位地。「社長という責任ある―に就く」***** *****【表記】古くは「位地」とも。***** so if this entry were split into two senses, i guess there might be basis for a merge as: 位置,位地 [いち] (1) (usu. not 位地) position (i.e. location, etc.) (2) position (i.e. rank, status, etc.) |
| Name | rene |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | However GG5 clearly has both senses applied to both 位置 and 位地. I'm inclined to stick with combining them. |
| Headword 1 | 県政 |
| Reading 1 | けんせい |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | Prefecture government or administration |
| Reference | http://eow.alc.co.jp/������/UTF-8/ |
| Name | Alan Rominger |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 裏日本 [うらにっぽん;うらにほん] /(n) (sens) Japan Sea coastal areas/ (1585090) |
| Headword 1 | 裏日本 |
| Reading 1 | うらにっぽん |
| Reading 2 | うらにほん |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (sens) Japan Sea coastal areas |
| Comment | Although I never heard this one, the meaning is discernable by even the least discerning. What is usually/always used is 日本海. Why do I point up the obvious? Well, lest one read the mind of the "wordsmith" the English query of "Japan sea" produces nothing, only "Sea of Japan" results in 日本海 as a result. Although I know Edict is "intended" for those enquiring in Japanese exclusively, I believe this is a rather myopic approach and that our "database", if indeed it be that, be updated to accommodate "word-specific queries" and therefore not limited to "word-order specific" queries. Therefore both "sea + Japan" and "Japan + sea" should, as is SOP nowadays, yield 日本海. |
| Name | Dennis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 誠に(P);実に(P);真に;寔に;洵に;實に(oK) [まことに(P);じつに(実に);げに(実に);しんに(真に)] /(adv) (1) indeed/really/absolutely/truly/actually/(2) very/quite/(P)/ (1381160) |
| Headword 1 | 誠に |
| Headword 2 | 実に |
| Headword 3 | 真に |
| Headword 4 | 寔に |
| Headword 5 | 洵に |
| Headword 6 | 實に |
| Reading 1 | まことに |
| Reading 2 | じつに |
| Reading 3 | げに |
| Reading 4 | しんに |
| Part-of-speech | adv |
| English 1 | (1) indeed |
| English 2 | really |
| English 3 | absolutely |
| English 4 | truly |
| English 5 | actually |
| English 6 | (2) very |
| English 7 | quite |
| Comment | 実に definitely needs a (P), as does じつに(実に) |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | It got one yesterday. |
| Current Entry | 一つ宛 [ひとつあて;ひとつづつ;ひとつずつ] /(n) one each/ (1575930) |
| Headword 1 | 一つ宛 |
| Reading 1 | ひとつあて |
| Reading 2 | ひとつづつ |
| Reading 3 | ひとつずつ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | one each |
| Comment | > Did you mean the withdraw the 一つ宛 headword?
Yes, and the ひとつあて reading. I think that's a different word. (Doesn't make the 'two out of three' criteria with kanji and reading different). I didn't submit 一つ宛 separately because I have no reference for it, nor have I seen it in use (I didn't look much though). |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | No problem dropping ひとつあて, but GG5 has 一つ宛/ひとつずつ. |
| Current Entry | 家中 [うちじゅう;かちゅう;いえじゅう] /(n) (1) (うちじゅう, かちゅう only) whole family/all (members of) family/(2) all over the house/ (1192250) |
| Headword 1 | 家中 |
| Reading 1 | うちじゅう |
| Reading 2 | かちゅう |
| Reading 3 | いえじゅう |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | (1) whole family |
| English 2 | all (members of a) family |
| English 3 | (2) all over the house |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=家中&kind=jn&mode=0&base=1&row=1
かちゅう 1 【家中】 (2)家の全員。いえじゅう。 |
| Comment | I think (1) applies to all readings (going by above dictionary). |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | That's what GG5 says too. |
| Current Entry | 工場渡し [こうじょうわたし] /(n,adj-no) ex works/EXW/ (2260220) |
| Headword 1 | 工場渡し |
| Reading 1 | こうじょうわたし |
| Part-of-speech | n,adj-no |
| English 1 | ex works |
| English 2 | EXW |
| Comment | Maybe note that it's an incoterm / international commercial term ? |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | Is it? We used it often in my earlier telecoms days. |
| Current Entry | グーグル;ググル /(n) {comp} Google (WWW search engine)/ (2018450) |
| Headword 1 | グーグル |
| Headword 2 | ググル |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | Google (WWW search engine) |
| Comment | Drop {comp}, perhaps move to enamdict. |
| Name | Jeroen Hoek |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | There are squillions of such commercial names labelled as "comp" in Jmdict now. Maybe they all need to move out, but I don't want to pick on Google alone. |
| Current Entry | 知的財産権 [ちてきざいさんけん] /(n) {comp} intellectual property right/ (2374210) |
| Headword 1 | 知的財産権 |
| Reading 1 | ちてきざいさんけん |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | intellectual property right |
| Comment | Drop {comp} |
| Name | Jeroen Hoek |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 別居 [べっきょ] /(n,vs) (legal) separation/divorce from bed and table/(P)/ (1509650) |
| Headword 1 | 別居 |
| Reading 1 | べっきょ |
| Part-of-speech | n,vs |
| English 1 | separation |
| English 2 | living apart |
| English 3 | divorce from bed and table |
| Reference | http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/search.php?MT=別居&kind=jn |
| Comment | I don't think it needs the 'legal', and does anybody really say "divorce from bed and table" (within the last 100 years or so)? |
| Name | Paul |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Current Entry | 一生の真盛り [いっしょうのまっさかり] /(n) the noontide of life/ (1163990) |
| Headword 1 | 一生の真盛り |
| Reading 1 | いっしょうのまっさかり |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | the noontide of life |
| Comment | 人生の真っ盛り sounds more Japanese. |
| Name | skb |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment | What's more it gets 500 times more hits than 一生の真盛り. |
| Current Entry | 第一幕目 [だいいちまくめ] /(n) the first one act play/TempSUB/ |
| Headword 1 | 第一幕目 |
| Reading 1 | だいいちまくめ |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | the first one act play |
| English 2 | TempSUB |
| Reference | See below |
| Comment | I am not sure whether this mode of contact is the appropriate one for coming back to you on the topic. However, having read your comments, I agree with what you have said, save that when as a novice one goes to your site and enters a search criteria and sees the exact match and the associated meaning, it is a great comfort. Sometimes the obvious is the most difficult thing for the novice. Now that I have read your note, I shall be quite confident about translating the meaning of 第一X目 for various things. Nevertheless, as there are often no natural spaces between words or expressions in Japanese text, it is often difficult to know where to start and end the serach criteria so an overdose of help from your site is more than welcome. Many thanks. |
| Name | Francis |
| Submission Type | amend |
| Editorial Comment |
| Headword 1 | 檜林 |
| Reading 1 | ひのきばやし |
| Part-of-speech | n |
| English 1 | cypress woodland |
| Cross-reference | see below |
| Reference | You have an entry for たけばやし(竹林) so I thought that maybe the above could be included. The above came from the description of the Japanese garden entry for Chelsea Flower Show. |
| Name | Francis |
| Submission Type | new |
| Editorial Comment | Not in dictionaries, but it checks out in WWW pages. |