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So, I REALLY REALLY REALLY HOPE I’m not just being stupid or I just can’t get it.
But, I noticed that on some of the TextFugu Kanji pages, there’s vocab and the page says something like:
“Look at this reading. It’s the Kun’yomi reading, and you can tell because the there’s no hiragana. it’s all alone, by itself.”And then I see something else along the lines of:
“This kanji used the kun’yomi reading. And it is read like that because you see hiragana after it.”They’re not numbers, and as far as I know there isn’t any wonky or silly exception to a rule.
Am I missing something?
Here’s a few specific examples of what I’m seeing.
The Kanji page of 土 and 夕.“Look at this reading. It’s the Kun’yomi reading, and you can tell because the there’s no hiragana. it’s all alone, by itself.”
And then I see something else along the lines of:
“This kanji used the kun’yomi reading. And it is read like that because you see hiragana after it.”Both are true. A single kanji by itself as well as kanji combined with hiragana in a sentence usually uses the kunyomi reading. What should be added to each is “…as opposed to two or more kanji together without any hiragana”.
Hope this helps
That was very helpful. Thank you!
I think the most important thing for me to do is basically study the readings given!
And when I see those two sentences, I know not to confuse them. They’re both meaning essentially the same thing. Mainly Kun’Yomi.Let me make sure I understand though.
If you see two kanji side-by-side, unless there’s some goofy exception,You’d use the on’yomi readings of both?
And if you see kanji then hiragana, or just kanji, use the kun’yomi reading!
In general, you are correct, but the exceptions are not as rare as you might think. It’s not like 99% of all multi-kani words will use strictly onyomi. Just be open to accepting the reading of a word the way it is, and try not to get frustrated by the number of ‘rule-breakers’.
Ok!! Thank you!!!!!! Thank you SOO MUCH!!!! It was a REALLY big help!!
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