? about . for kanji readings

[peanuge]

I have been digging into a few kanji that I am struggling to remember. I am only on level two. below and above have alot of kun readings for them. I noticed some have a . between them. Does the . have any significance?

[Held]

The . shows you which part of the word is “inside” the kanji and which part sticks out. For example, さ.げる is written as 下げる whereas くだ.す is written as 下す.

[peanuge]

Thank you for clearing that up for me.

[peanuge]

How about the - in front of ーくだす．

[yamitenshi]

For use as a suffix, like in 見(み)下(くだ)す or 飲(の)み下(くだ)す

[peanuge]

So its basically saying the - is any other kanji not already specified by a reading that ends with 下す is read as ?くげす?

[yamitenshi]

Not necessarily a kanji, but another “word” (in so far as that term has a clearly defined definition in Japanese).

くだす can be used as an auxiliary verb, where it means “to do something in one go”, and in that usage it gets tacked onto the stem form of another verb, hence use as a suffix.

This comes down to how Japanese constructs a lot of its grammar, which is essentially by tacking words (often auxiliary verbs or adjectives) onto other words.

[Belthazar]

@peanuge

くげす

Where’d this one spring from? That’s not a word in Japanese, much less a reading for 下.

But yeah, some of the simplest kanji have absurd numbers of readings. Luckily, you probably won’t enounter more than a handful of them on a regular basis, and the okurigana (i.e. the hiragana ending that “sticks out”) tells you which specific reading to use. 下がる is さがる, 下る is くだる, 下りる is おりる and so forth.

[UInt2048]

Proposal for 生 to be able to be read every single mora:

あ、い、お、う、え、か、。。。