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わたしはZachです。
Besides saying hello after lurking for so long, I’ve got a question about a sentence that popped up in season two that I can’t seem to find the answer to.
The sentence is: 十は七じゃありません。
I was wondering why in this case 十 gets to be pronounced with it’s onyomi reading (じゅう over とお) while 七 uses it’s kunyomi reading (なな over しち). Is this just some exception in a long list of exceptions? I’m under the impression a kanji without attached hiragana would use the onyomi (looking at 十).
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七 is a weird one in that its on’yomi and kun’yomi are fairly interchangeable.
Thanks for the help Joel!
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Yeah, the numbers all use on’yomi when alone, EXCEPT for 4 and 7. For those two numbers, the on’yomi and kun’yomi are exchangeable when the kanji is by itself.
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