flayxis
at 2024-07-07 17:08:44 UTC
It's not perfect but you can try https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/ngramcounts.html to research stuff like this.
For example: https://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/ngramlookup?sent=留める%2Cとどめる
Krishna_Viju
at 2024-07-08 11:21:40 UTC
not really depends on the case
Seikimatsuhasha
at 2024-07-09 12:01:24 UTC
留める is usually used as とどめる. Hiragana? Not really, the kanji 留める is common. 留める as とめる？Possible, but we don't use it so very much.
But 止める as とめる or やめる is very often, as you know.
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Usually kana?
Is this word usually written with kana only? Based on what I'm seeing, and comparing it to 止める, it seems like that would make sense. However, Kanshudo.com's entry for the word says otherwise.