How on earth do you remember the hiragana spelling of long o readings? Specifically readings that have おう and おお. Most readings seem to default to おう but the exceptions like 大きい and 氷 are killing me. Is there a difference in pronunciation that I’m not hearing? Or am I going to have to brute force the hiragna of these kinds of words.
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おお spellings only occur in kun’yomi readings (as far as I know). Other than this rule you’ll have to remember the readings individually,
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There are relatively few of these おお spellings in my experience, the ones that come to mind are 氷(こおり), 炎(ほのお) and, of course, as you pointed out, 大 and 多 in various words.
Those words are all fairly common so they’ll just “stick” eventually through sheer repetition.
Beyond that as you point out the long o is almost always as おう (or のう、こう、もう etc…).
So yeah, you’ll have to “bruteforce” those exceptions but the good news is that there aren’t going to be many of them.
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Also 通る and 遠い, and also 頬, though WaniKani doesn’t cover that one.
But yeah. Long O is almost always ～おう.
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I actually didn’t know 頬! 通る/通り and 遠い are indeed super common too.
十日 is another one
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Japanese counting is just a prank for newcomers, there’s no point in learning that.
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What do you mean by this? I would think counting common things like days and people is pretty imporatant.
I’m joking because Japanese counting is super irregular and annoying.
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Might be worth making your own mnemonic for those, if wanikani’s aren’t sticking. For 氷 for example, since I don’t know anyone named Corey, I just go with coriander instead (imagining someone really drawing out the o). Anyone interested in some frozen cooriander?
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