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Kanji with the longest reading? - aphasiac - 2011-03-29
So far my kanji studies, the longest reading for any single kanji had been 3 syllables. 緑 and 考え are 2 examples I can think of that contain 3 kana characters.
Then yesterday I came across 雷 (かみなり) - hurrah, a single kanji containing 4 syllables!
Do people know any other kanji with a 4-kana reading, or maybe even higher (5? 6??)? It would be interesting to see stats on the average length of kun and on readings for individual kanji (a majority seem consist of 2 sounds, then 1, the 3).
Kanji with the longest reading? - radical_tyro - 2011-03-29
i think the longest i know is 5: 承る（うけたまわる）
Kanji with the longest reading? - Zorlee - 2011-03-29
忝い（かたじけない） is cool as well =)
Kanji with the longest reading? - pudding cat - 2011-03-29
志 こころざし 5 in 1!
Kanji with the longest reading? - ta12121 - 2011-03-29
Zorlee Wrote:忝い（かたじけない） is cool as well =)heard that one in rurouni kenshin manga books I have. Makes me think for the most part, without the srs. How the heck would we memorize this stuff
Kanji with the longest reading? - ta12121 - 2011-03-29
radical_tyro Wrote:i think the longest i know is 5: 承る（うけたまわる）that one gives me the most trouble lol
Kanji with the longest reading? - JimmySeal - 2011-03-29
There's also 慮り.
Kanji with the longest reading? - yudantaiteki - 2011-03-29
Depends on your criteria; 糎 is read as センチメートル which is 7.
I think 5 is the highest you can go with kanji in current use. There's 政（まつりごと） and 詔（みことのり）, which are quite rare in modern Japanese but still on the joyo list for some reason. 承る, 慮る and 志 were already mentioned.
If you delve into older Japanese you can sometimes find some pretty long kun-yomi glosses for Chinese words, like すめらみこと for 皇, but it's questionable whether these should really be considered "readings" or not.
Kanji with the longest reading? - aphasiac - 2011-03-29
ta12121 Wrote:I'm wondering, how the hell did they write the furigana for that? lol what a mess..Zorlee Wrote:忝い（かたじけない） is cool as well =)heard that one in rurouni kenshin manga books I have. Makes me think for the most part, without the srs. How the heck would we memorize this stuff
Anyway good work people, keep em coming!
Kanji with the longest reading? - yudantaiteki - 2011-03-29
aphasiac Wrote:Anyway good work people, keep em coming!Yes, sir!
Kanji with the longest reading? - ta12121 - 2011-03-29
aphasiac Wrote:most of the time I can't even read the furigana in the books lol. It's seriously so small. Most of the time you actually have to know how to read kanji in order to read that manga. Even jp people say that manga is hard, harder than the average novelta12121 Wrote:I'm wondering, how the hell did they write the furigana for that? lol what a mess..Zorlee Wrote:忝い（かたじけない） is cool as well =)heard that one in rurouni kenshin manga books I have. Makes me think for the most part, without the srs. How the heck would we memorize this stuff
Anyway good work people, keep em coming!
Kanji with the longest reading? - thecite - 2011-03-29
掌（たなごころ）
Kanji with the longest reading? - Zorlee - 2011-03-29
謀 （はかりごと）
Kanji with the longest reading? - fakewookie - 2011-03-29
http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1427236759
「閄」（門+人）（画像参照）
読み：「ものかげからきゅうにとびだしてひとをおどろかせるときにはっするこえ」
（33音）
I win! :lol:
Kanji with the longest reading? - astendra - 2011-03-29
fakewookie Wrote:I win! :lol:Looks more like a definition to me.
「しかし、これらは字義に過ぎないという見解もあります。」
Kanji with the longest reading? - yudantaiteki - 2011-03-29
I would not consider those kun-yomi; they come from the Morohashi, which has definitions and not just readings. It's a dictionary of Classical Chinese, so it explains the way characters are used in classical Chinese documents, and not all of its definitions represent the way the kanji were actually pronounced or read by any readers. In this case there's virtually no chance that even Nara or Heian-era readers would have read 閄 as ものかげからきゅうにとびだしてひとをおどろかせるときにはっするこえ.
Kanji with the longest reading? - thecite - 2011-03-29
http://2hon5.com/5/
Nifty little site. Unfortunately, everything beyond 5 syllables (except for measurement kanji) are useless obscurities.
Kanji with the longest reading? - thecite - 2011-03-29
Ugh, of course, we forgot 恣 (ほしいまま)
Kanji with the longest reading? - thecite - 2011-03-29
鯱(しゃちほこ) comes up in the Microsoft's Japanese IME, must be common enough.
Kanji with the longest reading? - thecite - 2011-03-29
甃（いしだたみ）, 鸛（こうのとり）, 鰾（うきぶくろ）and 誄（しのびごと）also don't seem to be completely useless.
There is also a somewhat obscure, but not completely unused kanji for micrometre: 粆(マイクロメートル) which has 8 syllables.
Kanji with the longest reading? - ta12121 - 2011-03-29
fakewookie Wrote:http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1427236759deadly
「閄」（門+人）（画像参照）
読み：「ものかげからきゅうにとびだしてひとをおどろかせるときにはっするこえ」
（33音）
I win! :lol:
Kanji with the longest reading? - Evil_Dragon - 2011-03-29
thecite Wrote:http://2hon5.com/5/I just fell in love.
Nifty little site. Unfortunately, everything beyond 5 syllables (except for measurement kanji) are useless obscurities.
Kanji with the longest reading? - mezbup - 2011-03-30
That site is awesome!!!!
鬣 （たてがみ）
Kanji with the longest reading? - Nesetoru - 2011-03-30
mezbup Wrote:That site is awesome!!!!彼に賛成だ。Thanks for the link !
鬣 （たてがみ）
Kanji with the longest reading? - ファブリス - 2011-03-30
Here's a SQL query from JDICT data, position is the character in the compound which reading ("pron") is shown, they are all kun-yomi:
+-----------------+----------+-------+-----------------------------------+
| pron | position | kanji | compound |
+-----------------+----------+-------+-----------------------------------+
| あまつさえ | 0 | 21104 | 剰 |
| いかのぼり | 0 | 20967 | 凧 |
| うけたまわ | 0 | 25215 | 承る |
| おにがしら | 0 | 32411 | 纛 |
| おもんぱか | 0 | 24942 | 慮る |
| おもんぱか | 0 | 24942 | 慮り |
| かたじけな | 0 | 24541 | 忝い |
| かたじけな | 0 | 24541 | 忝くも |
| かわごろも | 0 | 35032 | 裘 |
| こうのとり | 0 | 40475 | 鸛 |
| こころざし | 0 | 24535 | 志 |
| こころざし | 3 | 24535 | 青雲の志 |
| しゃちほこ | 0 | 39921 | 鯱 |
| しゃちほこ | 2 | 39921 | 金の鯱 |
| しゃちほこ | 0 | 39921 | 鯱瓦 |
| しゃちほこ | 0 | 39921 | 鯱蛾 |
| しゅうとめ | 0 | 22993 | 姑 |
| しゅうとめ | 1 | 22993 | 小姑 |
| たなごころ | 0 | 25484 | 掌 |
| たなごころ | 0 | 25484 | 掌を指す様に知っている |
+-----------------+----------+-------+-----------------------------------+
I left some doubles so you can see example words.