Confusing Readings

[Tomy56739]

Hello community! I just hit Level 6 yesterday and am really enjoying WaniKani , however, I am having a bit of trouble with something that many people have already complained about. People complain about Jin, Nin, and Hito, but I found my way around it due to Jin usually being used for official things like a person from a country, Nin usually being used as a counter and/or is behind another Kanji, and Hito is just the kun yomi or becomes “bito” when put after something like village 「村人」. The readings also start to become natural as time goes on, but the day Kanji 日 and 月 on yomi in the Vocabulary for 何 「one of those two kanji」and 毎 「insert one of those two kanji」is really confusing. Please let me know of a way of how to surpass this challenge. What I am going to do for now is self study those four vocabulary until it sticks in my head, but if you can let me know of how you surpass all these confusing reading predicaments, that would be nice. Thank you!

[Airdramon]

I believe じん for people (Japanese People, Australian people), にん for counting (three people, four people), ひと when revering to a person (Who is this person?).

However, there are and always be exceptions.

Also, in terms for the more general problem, remember the individual vocab by itself to learn the reading.
Kunyomi will be used in a single kanji followed by hiragana in the word (called okurigana).
The onyomi is (mostly?) closer to the original Chinese language and is mostly used for nouns.

Also regarding Hito/Bito, Tofugu put up an article about this a little bit ago.

[ZoomlionX2]

See this thread for some tips on those:

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Hey folks: Working on level 6, I’m dealing with my first official severe frustration with what I’ve learned are referred to as “Leeches”. Specifically, the ones I’m dealing with right now are things involving 日 and 月. Like 何日、何月、毎月、毎日, etc etc! Like I know the meanings, but is it nichi, is it jitsu? Is it getsu, is it gatsu, or is it tsuki?! I realize there are some leech threads that have discussed this concept, but I was hoping to get some first-hand discussion going on how people have h…

[seanblue]

@Tomy56739

but the day Kanji 日 and 月 on yomi in the Vocabulary for 何 「one of those two kanji」

See my previous answers:

Jitsu/nichi and getsu/gatsu

Come on guys, don’t spam a serious thread. @sagecedar One thing that might help is to remember that question words follow the same reading as their corresponding counters. Since 五月 is ごがつ, 何月 is なんがつ. Similarly, since 十二日 is じゅうににち (you have to look after 10 for when the 日 counter is regular), 何日 is なんにち. Other than that, I don’t have any more suggestions. I can tell you that these days I intuitively guess correctly most of the time, so I think you’ll get a feel for it over time.

Any items you can't seem to burn? (And solutions to overcome this?)

Do you know how to count days of the month? ついたち (1) ふつか (2) みっか (3) … とおか (10) じゅういちにち (11) じゅうににち (12) じゅうさんにち (13) … Once the day counter becomes regular (11 and on) it ends in にち. Since 何日 is asking what day it is, it uses the same counter you’d use to count the days. Therefore 何日 is なんにち.