Onyomi and Kunyomi frustrations

[anon8142279]

You’ll get used to it. Everybody struggles at first.

Here’s a discussion on the same thing from just one or two days ago in case you want to learn more.

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You kind of just get a feel for it after a while and can guess with pretty good accuracy whenever you encounter a new usage of a kanji that you’ve learned before. In general, the rules that I use are: Government or legal texts - Jukugo galore, almost everything is going to be onyomi. This is because back in the day, Chinese was the lingua franca. Even today, using more onyomi words has a feeling of being more “academic” and “smart-sounding.” Folk custom related or other traditional writing - A…