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hey my japanese friends asking a srs question here: why the hell does 下 have the on readings of か, げ and kun readings of した, さが, くだ, お, but when it's put into a word like this 下げる it suddenly fucking is さ? How the hell am i supposed to memorize and know that for every word? and in 下手 it's suddenly へ??? How does your writing system even work??? wtf? explain
trying to use wanikani.com to learn this shit, and the pronounciation just has literally no rhyme or reason... wtf
Ryder Hill
華やかで良いね 乙
Michael Thompson
乙
Matthew Hernandez
Our kanji is to show what a word means not its pronunciation.
Logan Long
then how do i figure out the pronounciation you're saying i have to learn 2500+ kanji and the 2-10 pronouciations of each character?