I am streaming tonight’s NJPW show and I like to look at the wrestlers names to see what kanji I can identify. I recognized the kanji in Nakanishi’s last name but for the kanji for his first name the only pronunciation I could think of was gaku, which I knew was not correct. I checked the English NJ…

I hear there are two towns in Japan somewhere written in the same kanji, but with slightly different pronunciations. And the people from one town always get corrected by people who only know of the other town.

It’s normal for Japanese people to have no idea how to read the place names for parts of Japan they aren’t familiar with. Some can be guessed, others are just out there on their own.

That just doesn’t seem right to have that happen. But on the other hand, it is incredibly amusing.

To be entirely fair, it happens in English too. Like, a lot .

Wow. I would have expected that not to happen, but then I thought about some of the places in Massachusetts and how they pronounce things differently from the rest of the country, such as Peabody which is pronounced Peabdy, and the trouble I had with names like that (much to the amusement of my loca…

Thanks. That was pretty interesting to see how many cities besides Tsugaru are spelled entirely in hiragana.

I know of a similar situation where there is a city and a district, they use the same initial kanji, but they are pronounced differently. 山武市さんむし and 山武郡さんぶぐん

Godmanchester (Gumster!) makes me incredibly angry, even as a person who generally likes how bizarre English (and place names) can be. I think I’d be less angry about it if Manchester didn’t exist. It’s like Kansas and Arkansas.

[image] LucasDesu: 山武市 and 山武郡 But, why’s the district comprised of two separated areas? And on a similar note, the town of 貴船 (きふね) in the north of Kyoto is named for the shrine located there… which is きぶね… [image] Radish8: Godmanchester (Gumster!) makes me incredibly angry, even as a …

Phonetic Kanji, which pronunciation

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Belthazar November 29, 2018, 11:00am 10

Well, if you want a big long list of place names to practice on, I made dis. </shameless self plug>

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