Why is the furigana for 'hikari' in katakana

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Well that escalated quickly.

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[Wallpaper] irregular readings of months/days in dates (sans anime version in comments)

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The samurai were wise indeed

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Read text with furigana, they said, you will learn the kanji readings, they said

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My Japanese Textbook Knows Exactly How I Treat My Friends.

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I hope this helps to whomever is still confused about giving/receiving.

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A chart I'm creating to help people with conversational Japanese - would love your suggestions/ feedback.

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If you like manga, Book Off in San Diego is giving away entire series at crazy prices! Look what I got today for $6 total!!!

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I'm reading the Shin Kanzen Master series and can someone please explain to me what is 普通形 and how it's different from normal Nouns and Verbs?

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My buddy saw my troubles with learning kanji so he made some pictures to help me (X-post from r/japan)

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Hello! Could anyone help with explaining this flashcard for me please?

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Thought I would share his typo in my genki textbook.

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Could you give some feedback on my hiragana writing? I figured I'd start with the a-row first.

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I’m not getting this grammar point at all. 〜か〜ないかののうちに

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Does anyone know how to disable this text using memrise?

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This is how you teach Japanese when your laser pointer dies (x-post from r/pics)

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[Meta] WaniKani Learning Progession (source in comments)

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I'm currently learning simplified kanjis(as I know kanjis only in the traditional shapes) but found something strange. If 龍 is simplified 竜, why isn't 襲 simplified? If it isn't simplified..why isn't it simplified?

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What's the last kanji? Jisho gives me nothing.

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What is the kana in this Spirited Away screenshot? I've never seen a modified ku

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I'm pretty sure that's not what 一期一会 means, Google.

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I was bored in the hotel so I thought I'd practice. 書き方どう?

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Question from lingodeer in comments

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I found this random tweet and I was pretty stumped trying to decipher it. Anyone know? Is posake short for sapporo chu-hi?

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A kanji colour sheet I made

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Just wanted to ask why the number 2 and 3 are invalid? (sorry for the long reading material)

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What is this SFX sound? It looks like グクッ, but I do not understand what that means?

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Made a Learning-Japanese Tracker in my BuJo, with little pictures based on the ones on LingoDeer's lessons!

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Are these ok or unreadable?

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Christmas gift to myself and New Year's resolution all rolled into one

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Well... Wish me luck...

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I couldn't stopped laughing when this happened

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What does カサ mean in this context? Pretty sure it's not umbrella

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Saw this being reblogged on Tumblr. Had a laugh.

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My kanji list is sorted alphabetically, so these are my kanji for today ...

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If I'm reading this correctly, I just ate 'bukkake' for dinner... I thought that was something different...

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Is this correct? Shouldn't it be 「私はアメリカ人ではありません」?

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Completely confused. I understand fully what the letter says however the question makes no sense to me. (When does the teacher have time) <--- my best shot.

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Isn't the youni misplaced? Shouldnt it be 'kanemochi youni ni naremasu'? What does youni mean here?

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I discovered that childrens animalbooks were perfect for practicing katakana, pretty much everything is katakana and it's simple to figure out wich animal it is (マーラ=mara, オランウータン=orangutang etc)

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Well, now I understand the nuance of that word, Midori...

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How can I take anything from this platform serious when they do this kind of bullshit?

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My mom knows I'm trying to learn Japanese so she gave me these....

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Could it be that I finally understand particles?

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Why is まちました used instead of ました? Also what does it exactly indicate?

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Just in time for the JLPT N5!

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Why do I use が instead of は in this sentence?

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can て form can be attached in さん? if so, can someone give me a link that explains this? thanks.

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Is there a trick to turning grammar notes into an Anki deck? I have went through n5 to n4 grammar, but don't know how to start turning them into a deck.

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Ladies and gentleman, I introduce you to the forbidden katakana.

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Could someone please help me Translate this? My Toyota Prius keeps getting this warning light and the mechanics can't read it

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Is my translation correct? I think it says “just passing through”? Detail in the comments.

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What is this kanji? (details in comments)

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Wani...

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How can I improve my Japanese handwriting?

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After a recent episode of the Tofugu podcast, I was thinking about making something like this. What's a better wording?

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Got this tote bag as a gift; having trouble understanding the katakana. Any help would be appreciated (name of tote is Girls of Tokyo Bus)

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How can I create stroke order diagramms like this? Is there a special font for this purpose?

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What font style is this?

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Can someone explain why I'm wrong and my husband is correct? Thank you.

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Can any of you tell me what textbook this is?

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Why is the duration of time not before the verb in n°3? Genki 1 Workbook ch.4

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To help us remember the kanji for なら, to learn, my Japanese professor said to think of Bender from Futurama.

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Trying to understand why きれい is written with だなあ at the end of it. I know from reading Cure Dolly's book Unlocking Japanese that the IS function is built into きれい and that です is only ever added for formality. きれいだ is incorrect assuming I recall correctly. So how is きれいだなあ considered correct? Thx

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What do you think about my vertical handwriting? (Lyrics of ashita no kimi sae ireba ii)

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Japanese joke on a packet. Can someone explain the joke to me?

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In this picture, why does the furigana above 子供部屋 have べ above 部 instead of へ?

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On my way with my new years resolution!

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Oh boy. It begins... Thoughts, feelings, frustrations?

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Help! I want to buy the Genki 1 book, and there are two versions. On amazon they seem basically the same, and I was wondering why the first is $50, but the second only $20?

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Why do some kanji appear in a different writing in Anki on OSX? Can it be fixed?

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Mouth radical next to 'eat' (食) kanji? Is there a difference?

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How do I turn this off? Comes up every time I try to type in hiragana or katakana in Windows 10. Not in the document, like it should.

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Could somebody please explain to me the logic behind using 冬 as a name and pronouncing it identically to 夏?

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Why are people adding wwww's to the end of their sentences?

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Occasionally, the new Genki textbook is pretty awesome. [x-post from r/pics]

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I received this book from an instructor. It’s one of a series. I have searched hard to no avail and would like to be able to purchase the rest for reading practice. Any thoughts?

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This is coming from a native Japanese woman...

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Google's grasp of Japanese is... interesting.

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Old Hiragana. Why were We and Wi removed from the Hiragana list?

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For numbers 8 can someone explain to me like I’m five how 百 is placed before 二? I’m trying to understand but I’m confusing myself

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Hi, I'm new here! I wanted to make sure my Japanese is accurate. Is it? Also is my handwriting clear? I want to get into the habit of having legible handwriting as early as possible. Thanks!

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I wrote/typed a haiku, can someone check if this is grammarly/poeticly correct?

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Really? Which One Are You Majoring In?

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Don't worry about your handwriting TOO much. Even native speakers have weird/shitty handwriting.

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How I felt the other day when my sense of accomplishment was crushed by my friend.

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Can some correct and finish my translation? I'm pretty confused...

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What do these red/pinkish marks mean?

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This is my first time doing this sort of thing ^-^ Any thoughts or suggestions?

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Can this also mean third world as in third world country?

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I don't seem to understand the difference between なければいけません and なきゃいけない。Aren't they basically the same?

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I recently began learning Japanese and wanted a reference sheet for Hiragana and Katakana, this was created

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The Joys of Okayama-ben

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Can anyone provide some insight / a different explanation on what this specific footnote from Genki I Lesson I means?

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I’m beta testing Kanji Combat from Learn Japanese to Survive. What do you think? (Not complete list of kanji)

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Is this a mistake? Why is aruku taking a direct object?

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Can someone critique my writing please?

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My new wallpaper is helping me a lot learning kanji. What do you guys think?

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please help, why is 1 and 3 an invalid answer? Thanks for the reply in advance

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Can someone help me find the source or name of this text book?

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just wondering why the particle や was used in here. after the はがき。

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What is the「す」for in the top left corner of this image? (「映画たのしす」)

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Which Wanikana levels are equivalent to which JLPT levels in vocabulary? If comparison is possible

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What are the radicals used in this red kanji? If there are any?

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Her name in English is a joke with sniper. Is the Japanese name change (Elizabeth) a joke on something? Was piper a bad name in Japanese? Or is this just a random name change?

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Please don’t do this! Choose one language!

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Trying to figure out the best way to say this when Google offered it's own suggestion

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I was watching a video about an unreleased Pokemon demo and noticed this fella's weird name, fruit of a computer glitch; I thought it was so curious I might as well share it. How would you guys prnounce this?

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An explanation of the historical origin of the Japanese cultivation of eggs

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Taisho/Meiji Era magazine. What are the circles and dashes doing in the furigana area?

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Kanji Study App showing Katakana instad of Hiragana for the On-yomi. How do I switch the kana to Hiragana?

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Just started hiragana recently, is this readable?

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What's the Japanese word for a small path in the forest, like this one?

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I'm going through KKLC and I've read the explanation of the readings multiple times but I'm still confused.

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To practice your conversational Japanese, search up gaming live streams in Japanese (9pm-3am PDT), and chat.

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Fun with Japanese Orthography, Part 3: Kunyomi's Revenge

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I was about to buy and start studying Genki this week, when a friend gave me this. Any good, or should I stick to the original plan?

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At my Local Used book store....

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Odd translation choice from Google Translate... - Imgur

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Can anyone translate this bandana from ww2?

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Vocabulary Card 4 - 鋼(はがね)- steel

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詰 meaning?

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Anyone else's evenings often looking like this lately?

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YSK: If you are on a Mac, the Dictionary app is pretty good for Japanese-English

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How do I interpret these kun readings on Jisho dictionary? They have weird periods and hyphens placed in them.

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This book: A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

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Thought you guys might appreciate this joke (manga)

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If you are able to ask this question, you probably don't need the answer.

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More fun with Japanese orthography!

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Please help me read this text. I can only understand こんにちは at the beginning and I guess 写真送ります at the end.

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Suggestions for my handwriting? Also, how does the text flow? It's a translation of a song

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Is this ***EVER*** easy to read?

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Why the first line is on the opposite way ? (Katakana チ)

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GameCenter CX is the most useful non-educative TV show I've watched to aid my learning.

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Why did WaniKani mark this wrong?

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What do these vertical lines in words mean? I can't find these words in dictionaries.

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I'm gonna stupid here but, what does that Tetris shape mean? The one after Shigeru.

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Why did the romaji started with “gozen” ? Is the book wrong ?

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what do you think of my handwriting is it good or not.

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