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Kanji Explanation Please
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I'm just a beginner and this question has been bothering me for a while. Why is the kanji 人(hito) pronounced differently, for example: æ‹äºº(koiBITO), 日本人(nihonJIN) I've never taken any classes or anything, and I'm probably just stupid. :( And can anyone give me more examples? Thanks in advance. |
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Re: Kanji Explanation Please
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on 2010-09-13 23:28:48 |
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Hi~. Thats just the way kanji are, they all have two or three readings that vary. If you dont have a kanji dictionary, youre unfortunately going to have to learn them by hand. (Which I can tell you from personal is experience is quite painful after a while) They can normally be read depending on the context. I would think that jin is a term reffering to a group or type of people, as inã€€äººå£ (jinkou) (population) and　有å人 (yuumei jin) (famous person/people), whereas hito/bito would be more specific/individual. But dont go by me, as Im not Japanese. So, some characters may have two meanings, thus two different readings. Take this kanji for example: ç›®. It is read as ã‚ when reffering to ones eyes, but ã‚‚ã when it is an aim/objective of some sort. I hope that this helps you!
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Re: Kanji Explanation Please
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on 2010-12-21 15:42:22 (edited 2010-12-21 15:42:42)
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Back from the darkness. What Rii says is correct. Here is a good online kanji dictionary. Link Been using it to convert scanned lyrics to word docs. You can find a bunch of possible readings a kanji can have there. Back into the darkness. |
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If you didn't know already, kanji is taken from chinese characters, and thus, for some kanjis, there are the japanese way to read it (kunyomi), and the chinese way to read it (onyomi). That makes it possible for one character to be read several ways. As for determining which way of reading to use, I'm not sure if there's a certain rule on the usage. I suppose you should rely on experience for that matter. just search kunyomi and onyomi on wiki if you need more details for those. |
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Re: Kanji Explanation Please
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| As for why æ‹äºº is "koibito" rather than "koihito", that's the effect of rendaku. Wikipedia has a good basic explanation of that. |