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06-09-2008, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Dakuten View Post
Quite a few times, for whatever reason, I have run into the wall of finding a Chinese character with a Chinese pronunciation but no Japanese pronunciation (or at least not one I've been able to find in any dictionary), and wanted to pronounce it in Japanese. This got me to wondering how characters such as "䫖" and "㩱" are pronounced in Japanese if they occur in the name of something. Could anyone explain this?
Unfortunately, the two characters you posted only appear as question marks to me...

Which likely means they don`t exist in Japanese. Japan only uses a limited set of characters compared to Chinese. There may very well not be any Japanese reading for them. Your best bet is to check similar Kanji and use one with a reading similar to the Chinese in it`s place. (This is how most of the Chinese I know write their names in Japanese.)


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