Re: [Lingo] Usually Kanji in 国語 dictionary

[steve <sjs@example.com>]

On 11/09/2015 06:12 PM, Jim Breen wrote:
> On 10 November 2015 at 12:58, steve <sjs@example.com> wrote:
> > As far as I can see, my Sanseidou 大辞林 dictionary doesn't mark words
> > that are usually written only in kana. Am I missing something?
>
> I don't think so.
>
> It's rare for dictionaries to mark that. GG5 for example will sometimes show it
> by only using kana in examples of usage.
>
> In JMdict/EDICT we attempt to mark it explicitly with a "uk" (usually
> kana) tag. We base this largely on frequency counts from WWW corpora,
> which seem to be pretty reliable. Certainly they align well with GG5's
> examples.
Thank you Jim.

JMdict and EDICT were where I encountered it and my Japanese Teacher 
didn't even understand the question.  It seems like a really useful 
piece of information to me though.

Steve Smith