Special kanji words derived from other words

Japanese Language Kanji
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Nice, now we just have to be careful to add things in 五十音順 :+1: I still don’t know the order right, nice opportunity to hammer it into my head :sweat_smile:

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102

蝕むしばむ = 虫食む (valid spelling)

This one is probably even more special than the others because the kanji 蝕 itself is a combination of 食 + 虫 (it uses a different version of 食, though).

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103


Ah, Kana Symbols. Take Note How Many You Remember Well.

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104

poor ん doesn’t fit in

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105

Nobody uses that one anyway :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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106

Nooooo…

(Ah great, now Discourse is complaining about my grammar. “Body seems unclear, is it a complete sentence?”. Thanks, MS Word. I actually intended to write that.)

Yeah. It’s a losing move in Shiritori, don’cha know?

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腥なまぐさい = 生臭い (valid spelling)
醜みにくい = 見難い (not a valid spelling*)

*You can still use 見難にくい, but it’s going to be the general meaning of adding 難にくい to verb stems, not synonymous with 醜い.

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108

塒ねぐら = 寝座 (not a valid spelling)

109

Where do you find all these??

110

It all comes up while reading. Since nowadays I’m actively looking for those, it’s not that difficult either :wink:

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111

鏃やじり = 矢尻 (valid spelling)
燧石ひうちいし = 火打ち石 (valid spelling)
赴おもむく = 面向く (not a valid spelling)

112

I love you

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113

Oh, I actually thought of a word to add!
I even used both search functions to make sure it hasn’t been added already:

Word: 向日葵
Reading: ひまわり
Origin: 日回り

Sunflower!

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114

A big thanks to everyone who helped reorganising the list! I did now add furigana to the words with sound changes (to which it makes the most sense imo). However, I’m not too sure if furigana help with readability.

We also have the possibility to make the text bigger using HTML <big> tags which looks like this:

Bigger text

|Word|Origin|
|-|-|-|
|暁あかつき|明あか時とき|
|泉いずみ|出いづ水み|
|妹いもうと|妹いも人ひと|
|弟おとうと|弟おと人ひと|
|躓つまずく|爪つま突づく|
|自みずから|身みつ柄から|
|港みなと|水みの門と|

What do you think?

  • Furigana with normal sized text is just perfect.
  • Furigana is nice but make the text bigger.
  • Leave three columns and put furigana on the third column only.
  • I don’t like furigana at all.

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I’d also like to give you the opportunity to retrospectively comment on the following contentual changes I’ve made to these words:

  • Moved 「保たもつ」 (originated from 「手た持もつ」) to the words without sound changes because the character 「手た」 just uses an alternative reading that should still be valid today.
  • Changed the origin of 「自みずから」 from 「身みのから」 to 「身みつ柄から」
  • Changed the origin of 「源みなもと」 from 「水みの本もと」 to 「水みの元もと」
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115

There’s another option: Add a fourth column for “origin reading” to avoid furigana entirely.

That said, it’s also fine as is. I don’t think the big text is appropriate.

116

Does two character words count?

剃刀 かみそり 髪剃り razor

(fun how the 剃 kanji is in resulting word, just in the wrong place)

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117

Looks good to me ! I have added it, with another one I found recently 暦こよみ = 日か読よみ

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118

Wow nice one! That one is so intuitive too.

119

Yeah, I was just about to comment how nice that word is.

Then let me say instead that 試みる = 心見る (already in the list) is a weird one. Why did 「み」 change from kanji to kana?

120

Although みる isn’t used as an auxiliary verb here, it’s common to write it in kana in that case, so I don’t think it’s that unusual.

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