Is the word 流行 more often pronounced はやり or りゅうこう? Is it often used with する, and if so, is either of those two pronunciations more common?

Termy wrote:

Is the word 流行 more often pronounced はやり or りゅうこう? Is it often used with する, and if so, is either of those two pronunciations more common?

In my experience, 流行 is usually pronounced as りゅうこう. It can be used both as a suru-verb or a noun. Both are common.

        若い女性の間で流行しているヘアスタイル
        A hairstyle that is all the fashion [rage] among young women.

        夏の日傘は一時の流行ではなく, いまやすっかり定着した.
        Using a parasol in summer was not a passing fad. On the contrary, it has now come to stay.

流行り, on the other hand, is pronounced as はやり. You can easily tell them apart by the okurigana. I don't think it is as common as りゅうこう. There is also a verb 流行る.

        新しく出来た市立図書館は大流行りです。
        The new city library has been a big success.

        その色はもう流行っていない.
        That color is no longer in fashion.

Termy wrote:

Is the word

Nonono. They're two unrelated words, not pronunciations of the same word. EDICT just likes to put multiple words in the same entry if they have a spelling in common. EDICT also tends to include all possible spellings of a word, plus some that aren't...

Last edited by Vempele (May 29, 7:19 am)

Something I've been thinking about every time this card came up:

この町には消防署が1つしかありません。 (There's only one fire station in this town.)

From what I see it says: In this town, fire station 1 only doesn't exist

I was just wondering how it works out to be that only 1 station exists.

It's helpful to search grammar guides for these things: Tae Kim has an article with しか in the title.

Also, when EDICT says something goes with a negative verb, the definition assumes a negative verb, so what it really meant was "しか...ない->only; nothing but".

Last edited by Vempele (May 31, 5:05 am)

Possibly ラブプラス, a video game?  You sometimes see that "censoring" as kind of a joke.

Thanks. The sentence was from a premade core deck so I didn't translate anything. It makes a bit more sense now.

tashippy wrote:

What does it mean when someone says "ukeru"? I think it's slang.
Never mind. I figured it out. It's kinda like 'omoshiroi'.

It's more similar to 人気を得る "be popular".

    この漫画は小学生の間ですごく受けている.
    This cartoon is extremely popular among primary school children.

なすis it's own word (means "to do") , so なさいました is just the past masu form of なす.

iSoron wrote:

tashippy wrote:

What does it mean when someone says "ukeru"? I think it's slang.
Never mind. I figured it out. It's kinda like 'omoshiroi'.

It's more similar to 人気を得る "be popular".

    この漫画は小学生の間ですごく受けている.
    This cartoon is extremely popular among primary school children.

ウケる is the opposite of スベる in slang.
ウケる means that someone successfully made a good joke.
スベる means that someone failed at making a joke.
Sometimes failing can be just as funny as succeeding. Just like English. But you would still say スベる.

It's never written in kanji, though.

Some words have a different pronunciation than I would expect. When I looked up these kanji, I didn't see these pronunciations listed under onyomi or kunyomi.

For example:

葉隠れ - はがくれ - Hidden leaves
Looking at each kanji, I would expect this to be はかくれ instead. (Is this a phrase…or a word?)

中国人 - ちゅうごくじん - Chinese person
I thought this would be ちゅうこくじん like in 外国人 (がいこくじん)

Is there a term for these inconsistencies? Is there a pattern? Or do I just need to memorize these? :-)

Is this to make it easier to pronounce/roll off the tongue?

Thanks!

Thanks, that is very helpful. Since I didn't know the term 連濁 I wasn't finding anything relevant. I don't think my textbooks mentioned it. It's been bugging me for a while!