As the title reads. When learning a kanji, do you actually learn which reading is which as you learn them? I haven’t been doing so and I feel like it’s biting me in the ass when I don’t know which to use.

Yeah I keep it in mind for two reasons: You may be able to guess the reading of an unknown word (that you actually know), and hence understand it When a Kanji is used as a phonetic mark in another Kanji, it often takes the root Kanji’s on’yomi. E.g. 方 → 訪 or 白 → 迫 etc. The second point is how I a…

I didnt learn wich reading is kunyomi or onyomi aaand that made me the thing more hard now, if you just started do your best to learn wich one is onyomi or kunyomi

[image] Sidcaiyar: it often takes the root Kanji’s on’yomi It only takes the On’yomi.

Well, I use the Katakana Madness Userscript which turns all Onyomi readings into Katakana. I modified it a little myself so that I also have to type Onyomi readings in Katakana or else the answer will be wrong. That way, I was able to memorize which reading is On/Kum; simply because I don’t memorize…

As @Syphus said, you’ll eventually get used to what readings are possible for the on’yomi readings. I would say you shouldn’t bother explicitly studying it, but you should pay attention when you are learning new kanji.

You don’t necessarily have to remember exactly which is on/kun’yomi but over time you will gather enough vocabulary that will make it easier to remember which is which. If you know a little bit about the basic history of how kanji came to be used in Japan and its evolution, it will help a lot in re…

That’s really interesting. Instead of learning the onyomi and kunyomi for each kanji so you can deduce the reading of a word, you use the reading of a word to deduce the onyomi and kunyomi. I suppose I have been doing so anyway.

Yeah no. Personally I don’t take note of which is onyomi and which is kunyomi, but I do take note of the situations they’re used in (like if it’s a reading of a vocab all on its own, or if it’s only said that way when together with other kanji to form a word). To me, it’s like knowing the names of t…

Both methods are good to use and should probably be used simultaneously to reinforce what you know! I use both regularly depending on the vocabulary that I already know. When you encounter a new word with kanji, look at how it looks. Does it have hiragana? Is it only kanji? How many characters? The…

I’ve been studying Japanese off and on for a few years and I still have to look up what On’yomi and Kun’yomi mean. I honestly don’t make any effort to tell myself, “this is On and that is Kun.” If I get multiple readings for a kanji (one for a magneta kanji and a different one for the purple vocab…

Do you actually differentiate kun'yomi and on'yomi?

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Sezme March 11, 2018, 1:53am 20

I’m interested to learn if there is a reference that shows which subset of the kana syllabary is not possible to be used in onyomi. I have a feeling for which sounds are which, but don’t know how to check.

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Do you actually differentiate kun'yomi and on'yomi?

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