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Which sequences of kanji and/or kana form accepted ways to write a given word, particle, or other speech sound.
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Words with non-gikun/non-jukujikun kanji spellings for which it is not clear which kanji certain kana belong to
Are there words with kanji spellings for which it is not clear which kanji certain kana belong to?
Note that I'm explicitly excluding gikun/jukujinkun from my question, such as the well-known example ...
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Is it always legal to replace the kanji iteration mark 々 by the kanji it represents? If not, when is such a replacement okay?
Is it always legal to replace the kanji iteration mark 々 by the kanji it represents? If not: When is it legal to replace "K々" by "KK" for some kanji K?
I am aware of three use ...
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Are there words whose kana spelling contains the sequence ょお/ョオ within the same morpheme?
The Kunrei-shiki standard (ISO 3602:1989; Documentation — Romanization of Japanese (kana script)) lists both よお/ヨオ and よう/ヨウ for yô, but in its Table 3b (Kana trigraphs representing palatalized long-...
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How would you say the name Shireen Durrani in japanese?
My name is Shireen Durrani and my name is Pakistani.
Would it be 『シリーン・ドゥラニ』? Or 『シリーン・ヅラニ』? Would the last name come first?
I am not very experienced in japanese so please explain
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Can 混む and 込む be used interchangeably to mean "to be crowded?"
I knew of 混{こ}む to mean "to be crowded," but recently came upon a different kanji (込) being used to convey the exact same meaning, and with the exact same reading.
Looking it up on jisho.org,...
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What is the reading of "toy store"?
There seem to be various readings for toy store.
Do they have different meanings? Are they regionalisms?
玩具店【おもちゃてん】
玩具店【おもちゃみせ】
玩具屋【おもちゃや】
玩具屋【がんぐや】
玩具店【がんぐてん】
I came across it in this sentence in ...
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What is the most appropriate way to indicate a long vowel in Katakana?
I know that often, when rendering a long vowel in Katakana, a hyphen is used.
For example, the Katakana rendering of the English word "coat" is often shown as コート .
I have seen both "ko-...
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Can I convey a meaning in a name with only kana? If not, what Kanji should I use for the name "Mimi" to convey "Beautiful Ocean"?
I'm working on a logo design project and was thinking of using the name "Mimi" as I saw somewhere that it might represent "beautiful ocean".
I don't understand much about the ...
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What is the difference between 上がる and 挙がる?
Both 上がる and 挙がる are read the exact same way — as あがる — and in the dictionaries I looked them up, they appear under the same entry, and seem to show up as alternate spellings of the same word.
Is is ...
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Is it 日本人 or にほんじん?
I've been studying Japanese on my own for only three days. Why does the word "Japanese" sometimes appear like this 日本人 and also like this にほんじん?
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Kanji for darkness: 暗 vs 闇, nuance? meaning? use cases?
In Heisig's book Remembering the Kanji, 16th edition, kanji #519 (暗) is named Darkness. In Yu-gi-oh however the darkness element uses 闇
According to the following link, 暗 does indeed mean dark, ...
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Why do dictionaries differ so much in terms of spelling and is there an established standard for how a word should be written in contemporary text?
If we look at thee はまる, きこり, しじま and うつつ as three examples of many, they are spelt differently in different well known dictionaries.
はまる has 填まる first in Kenkyusha and Daijisen, while Meikyo and Shin ...
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What is the difference between 始めに and 初めに?
I'd learned 始{はじ}めに to mean "in the beginning" or "firstly" a while back, and recently I came across 初{はじ}めに to have the exact same meaning.
I looked it up on the dictionary, and ...
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Wondering if this translates to exactly what i am wanting
My friend is really into Japanese stuff and manga, and he's also learning Japanese. I wanted to make him a shirt with an inside joke/nickname I have for him, and I was planning on putting it in Kanji, ...
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When to use ンネ vs ッネ?
For example, why the correct spelling is トンネル rather than トッネル ?
Is it an arbitrary/historical choice, or is there a rule that explains it? Would the pronunciation differ?
This wiki page says that ッ &...
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