Comments on: How To Guess A Kanji’s Reading That You Don’t Know

By: Navarang

Navarang — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:14:00 +0000

空港 kuukou Airport

By: Paulo

Paulo — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:48:00 +0000

Thanks for this help… I guess this will help me familiarize more of those kanjis.. I believe kanji what makes the language really difficult.. Isn’t it that kanji is the most difficult part of the language? :/ why oh why!!

By: yx_wh

yx_wh — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:56:00 +0000

待 is never じ.
yes i searched and it seems to be caused by 古無舌上音 this is about Old Chinese and i don’t know it clearly either

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E7%84%A1%E8%88%8C%E4%B8%8A%E9%9F%B3

http://www.baike.com/wiki/%E5%BE%85

By: yx_wh

yx_wh — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:42:00 +0000

すみません。ちょっとした間違い…会意文字であるのは「虫」ではなく、「中」です。
虫は象形文字です。

By: yx_wh

yx_wh — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:38:00 +0000

unfortunately some correspondence is
not true. For example, 虫（ちゅう）is
not derived from中（ちゅう）,
because 虫
is a 会意文字（かいいもじ）,
not a 形声文字（けいせいもじ）,
so it cannot be derived from 中.
And their pronunciations in Middle Chinese are different (虫
pronounced “driung”
and 中
pronounced
“triung” in Middle Chinese, they are also pronounced differently
in modern Mandarin Chinese)

if you want to know more, you should
look at the “六書(りくしょ)”
and Middle Chinese（ちゅうこおん）.
Some kanji had different pronunciations in Middle Chinese but lost
their differences in Japanese.

By: Rodrigo Gonçalves

Rodrigo Gonçalves — Sat, 11 May 2013 13:24:00 +0000

Excellent article! Will help a lot learning to read those Kanji…