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Why did the author use hiragana instead of kanji in the following examples? (長い,幼い)
Could someone please explain why someone would use hiragana instead of the regular kanji?
For instance, we have a character for nagai - 長い, but examples using ながい can also be found in dictionaries ...
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kanji composition question — why these radicals for 出?
My explanatory Kanji dictionary lists 山 and 冂 as radicals used in 出. I see how the first one would be used, but cannot understand the reasoning for the second one.
I see two alternatives:
冂 is ...
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Difference between 颜 and 顔
I have seen both used like 笑颜 and 笑顔 to mean smile (noun). afaik both are pronouced as えがお (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, ビギナーだ).
So what exactly is the difference?
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Is 胡 missplaced in the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary? [closed]
I recently tried to look up the kanji 胡 in the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, which uses the SKIP method to look up each kanji, and I couldn't find it. It seemed to me a relatively ...
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What does this symbol mean? [closed]
Anybody knows what this symbol means ?
the picture is taken from the cloth of a bed
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What Does 火信 Mean?
I saw 火信 tattooed on a gentleman's neck. I looked up the words, but couldn't make sense of their combination...
What does it mean?
