So I’m just starting and I came across this Vocab word Unskillfull 下手 and I’m like how is this へた
I cant find へ in the readings for 下 and I can’t find た in the readings for 手
??
Is this crazy or what
You know about kunyomi, right. That’s when a native Japanese word is assigned to a single kanji. This is jukujikun, where a native Japanese word is assigned to two kanji. Others include 今日 and 大人. The whole word is assigned to the pair as a whole, so you can’t break it up like you tried searching for.
Since it’s an exceptional reading, you won’t see anything from it categorized as kunyomi or anything.
Ahh I see, I didn’t know that! Thanks heaps!
You might find this interesting!
とても面白いですよ!
You’ll start to find there’s a fair number of words like this. See:
today - 今日 (きょう)
tomorrow - 明日 (あした)
yesterday - 昨日 (きのう)
Unfortunately there’s not really anything you can do beyond memorizing each separate word. The rule you mean hear about kun’yomi being for words made of 1 kanji and on’yomi being for words made of 2+ kanji holds most of the time, but there’s a large enough number of cases that’s not true for that it’s hard to rely on. Don’t be surprised when a new vocab word has a reading you didn’t expect. It happens a lot.
This has worked btw haha it’s in my head now
-Memes are gonna help me burn
And I just saw the memes pages
Nice one!! Yer of course if it’ll help everyone, it helps me remember
Go ahead and post it over there and I’ll link it up on the OP. ^ _ ^
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