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What's the Difference Between On'yomi and Kun'yomi Kanji?

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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How to Learn a Konji?

S i have some examples here, but id thought up by myself and didn't look up our article. Definitely my work. Ah, for example, the the lakongi that means head. There's three readings for it, three chinese readings on yomi,. And of course there's the japanese kunyo reading for head, which is a tama. So like this has four different readings. That's what's going on. One of them skin be better than the rest, though, but not necessarily, unfortunately. Usually ver exceptions, yes. But you're going to have to learn both eventually, which can be really difficult. You can blame china for

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