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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:03 pm
I've hit a small snag with reading kanji. Well, as known, kanji has the two readings on- and kun-. And as seen many kanji have many different ways to say it, and I understand the differences in the two readings.
So with reading, like a word that you have never seen before, but you know what the kanji are, how would you determine how it is pronounced?
Are there any methods, or is it one of those things where you just look at the sentence and figure it out, that way.
(Sorry, if this is poorly worded.)
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:31 am
Usually, if say you have a two kanji compound (a word that uses two kanji), the reading of each kanji to make the word is the on- reading. But, sometimes, for some strange reason, a kanji could take it's kun- reading when a compound, but that's rarer. Usually when kanji are put together to make words, they take their on- readings.
If you knew the on- readings of all the kanji involved, usually it's straight forward by combining the all the readings in order to make the word. However, some kanji have an insane amount of on- readings and might need second guessing on how they come together to make a word.
The most important thing with studying kanji is knowing how you can look up kanji by the radical so you can find the kanji easier in a dictionary and be able to learn the on- and kun- readings better.
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Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:01 pm
On- readings are the original Chinese pronunciation of kanji, whereas kun- readings are usually the original Japanese pronunciation of the same character. Sometimes there seems to be a pattern with the readings because usually if there is a kana in the word (or it is the only character), then it usually goes by it's kun- reading, whereas compounds tend to follow their on- reading.
夜 - Kun: yo, yoru; On: ya
夜 - "yoru" night
夜明け - "yoake" daybreak
夜更け - "yofuke" latenight
夜間 - "yakan" nighttime
夜動 - "yakin" night work
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Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:16 pm
I pretty much just go by the context which depends on whether the kanji is by itself or in a compound. I haven't come accross any kanji with more than 3-4 on or Kun yomi readings yet.
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Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:25 am
When you come across an new word, just look it up. No matter how great your kanji skills are, there'll always be tricky words(besides, you'll need to know what the word means too)
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