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Kanji for native Japanese concepts: Kun'yomi spanning multiple morphemes

Are there any old loanwords from Korean, especially any not written in katakana?

Are all kanji compounds considered words?

Is there an order of adjectives in Japanese?

How has Japanese kanji and kana usage changed since 1945?

How did the verb 掛ける come to have many meanings?

Why was 邪 chosen to spell the names of 伊邪那岐神 and 伊邪那美神 in the 古事記?

How should we understand the plain form when used in novels set in the past?

How was Japanese animism referred to before 国家神道 (State Shinto) was created?

Does Japanese have free indirect speech?

Are there ways to write Japanese fast (like shortening the words)?

Why do Japanese people read Classical Japanese with a set of weird sound shifts?

The genesis of pitch accent in Japanese

How to write the name !xobile in Katakana?

What is the explanation for the archaic attributive particle が becoming a modern subject particle?

Do Japanese stative verbs have the inchoative aspect?

What do the words じゃが and おるかの mean?

What exactly is the subject?

Pattern in onyomi for middle Chinese -p and -ng finals

How are "comfort women" referred to nowadays?

How many Jōyō Kanji are identical to simplified Hanzi?

How does someone know when one word ends and the next one starts?

Why would the Japanese transliteration from Greek Χριστος be spelled as ハリストス instead of キリストス?