Remembering which Pronunciation

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Sorry, 日 will also take the にっ and ひ (rendaku’d to び) sounds in other words too.

For 月, @MissMisc has some good advice.

Help with multiple readings for 日

Unfortunately there are no set rules for which reading 日 will take, same goes for 人 for にん vs じん, so it really comes down to memorization as you keep going, you’ll start getting a “feel” for it though and it’ll come more naturally to you to remember which reading it will be in the different vocab, so try to memorize it the best you can for now! As for げつ vs がつ for 月 when referring to months, there aren’t really any set rules either but the way I like to think about it is: T…