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When translating a story from kanji to
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2007/9/14 00:37
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kana do i write the words composed of onyomi readings of kanji in katakana?
example: should ニガツ be in katakana or hiragana since ''ni'' and ''gatsu'' are the onyomi readings of the kanji?
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by kevin
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2007/9/14 10:01
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Kevin,
If you really want to write Japanese using only kana, it is more usual to write everything in hiragana except for foreign words/names and onomatopoeia. Whether a word is onyomi or kunyomi is not normally of any relevance.
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by Dave in Saitama
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Just to add
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2007/9/14 15:06
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The distinction of "on-yomi" and "kun-yomi" is made in *dictionaries* by using katakana for "on-yomi" and hiragana for "kun-yomi," just to show which "yomi" it is, only for reference. It does not mean we normally write the words with that distiction in normal writing.
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by AK
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