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09-20-2008, 12:52 AM

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Originally Posted by GenocideSamurai View Post
When I read meanings of kanji the hiragana sometimes show brackets. For example niku(i) niku(mu) niku(gara). But what do they mean?

As I hope you already know, Japanese cannot be written in kanji only. Many words consist of both kanji and kana.

In your particular dictionary, it seems that they put the kana parts of the words in the brackets.

= niku(i)

= niku(mu)
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