Kana written after a kanji to complete the full reading of the word.
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How to know what Okurigana signify? [closed]
For example, the kanji for "one" has a kun reading of "hito(tsu)." I looked it up and found that it's the difference between "one" and "one thing," but how could you have known that without ...
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Splitting Kanji and okurigana at the end of the line
A question was asked on the Linguistics Stack Exchange about the oriental languages. The title was the following: How are line breaks handled in ideographic scripts?
The answer made me think, and I ...
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Homographs: how to deal with them?
For example:
一日{いちにち} = one day (duration);
一日{ついたち} = first day of the month.
First of all, are the meanings correct? Because I found contradicting answers.
I suspect the meanings are ...
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How do I know when to read the kanji 抱 as 【だ・く】, and when to read it as 【いだ・く】, or even 【うだ・く】?
This sentence was in a grammar textbook:
彼は同僚にライバル意識、ひいては殺意すら抱いていた
Here's how it's read (except for the last kanji, for which this question is about):
かれは どうりょうに ライバル いしき、ひいては さついすら ??ていた
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How can I learn and recall okurigana?
As time goes on in our age of increasing reliance on computerized kanji input, this question may become increasingly irrelevant, but when I'm writing a sentence with (gasp!) pen and paper, I have ...
