Kanji 弥 all the more, increasingly Related words 野次馬 specifically means onlookers or rubberneckers gathering at an incident, while モブ is a broader term for any large disorderly crowd.
野次馬 describes a noisy, gawking crowd with a negative nuance, whereas 見物人 is a neutral term for an onlooker.
野次馬 highlights the curious onlookers themselves and their nosy motive, while 人だかり describes the resulting crowd or mass as a whole.
Written forms 野や 次じ 馬うま Usage 68%
ateji (phonetic kanji usage)
Standard ateji spelling; the most common written form.
やじ 馬うま Usage 9%
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Search-only mixed kana-kanji form.
弥や 次じ 馬うま Usage 9%
ateji (phonetic kanji usage) rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used ateji variant.
やじうま Usage 8%
Kana spelling; used when the ateji kanji are avoided or for clarity.
ヤジ 馬うま Usage 6%
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Search-only mixed katakana-kanji form.
Etymology The origin is disputed; a leading account derives the word from 親父馬 , an old horse that follows other horses, through shortening and sound change. It subsequently came to denote people who follow a disturbance out of idle curiosity.
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