細やか can be either read as こまやか or ささやか
But how do I differentiate which reading to read it as? (if there is no furigana)
Or can they be used interchangeably?
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2ほそやか is possible, too, although that is even more archaic. kotobank.jp/word/%E7%B4%B0%E3%82%84%E3%81%8B-504491– Yusuke MatsubaraOct 18, 2022 at 11:41
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I see, I've seen ほそい before but not ほそやか– Riku_dolaOct 19, 2022 at 0:43
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ささやか is almost always written in all hiragana, and 細やか without furigana is almost always read as こまやか. I believe most native Japanese speakers don't even know ささやか can be written as 細やか in kanji (FWIW, I didn't). As for the meaning, ささやか and こやまか have very different meanings, and they are never interchangeable.
