Advice on what Japanese to use

by **jeisensei** on Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:25 pm

himitsu wrote:hm, don't know the onyomi of samurai.. (侍)

The kun yomi is samurai or habe-ru(侍る） The on yomi is ji or shi
I usually check these things at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B Very informative site.

by **himitsu** on Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:50 pm

So why should it be 寺 then, don't see any difference..

by **jeisensei** on Mon Jan 16, 2012 3:51 pm

No difference at all. Preference I guess.

by **pakalika** on Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:35 pm

jeisensei wrote:No difference at all. Preference I guess.

Maybe it is where people are from read it different. When I should it to my JTE she could not read the first one. so she recommended the second one.

by **Jeimuzu** on Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:42 pm

Learning more about the language then I thought I would when I started this thread.

Which is nice.

by **Paul** on Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:24 am

jeisensei wrote:
himitsu wrote:hm, don't know the onyomi of samurai.. (侍)

The kun yomi is samurai or habe-ru(侍る） The on yomi is ji or shi
I usually check these things at http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1B Very informative site.

jei I use that site as my site of first choice when needing dictionaries or translations. :thumbsup:

It is a great site.

by **jeisensei** on Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:29 pm

Paul wrote:[jei I use that site as my site of first choice when needing dictionaries or translations. It is a great site.

Yeah. I love it. Everything from a normal dictionary to a great kanji dictionary.

by **Jeimuzu** on Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:20 pm

Ah, must add that dictionary link to my faves.

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