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Originally Posted by anrakushi
in the 大漢和辞典 ( 大漢和辞典 - Wikipedia) there are over 50,000 characters so it is certainly not a matter of them not existing in japanese. whether they are ever used is another thing all together.. haha. without being able to looking them up in said dictionary it would be hard to find out their pronunciation. |
The 大漢和辞典 is a *Chinese* dictionary. It`s considered the definitive Chinese to Japanese dictionary. Saying that something has to exist in Japanese because it`s in that dictionary is on the same lines of saying "Well, I found Kanji in my Japanese to English dictionary, so they must be in use in America. The book was published there." It doesn`t really make sense.
There are only a limited set of 漢字 in use in Japan. Most people never learn any beyond those. Japanese fonts also only include so many (more than most people know, but still nowhere CLOSE to the number in Chinese.)
In other words, there is a pretty high chance that the characters you are trying to find a Japanese reading for do not have one.