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Originally Posted by Khengi
Obviously, these readings are on a context basis, but I just wanted to prove that there were Kanji with many readings. Most of the time (and more than likely you already know this), a Kanji's official readings are influenced by how often exception are used and such (I don't really know how to explain it). I remember hearing my teacher tell me that a Kanji received a new reading based on slang. When you go by that standard, a Kanji can get many readings.
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I never meant to imply that kanji never had multiple readings... The thing is, there are very few with multiple readings that are in everyday use to the point of being easily mistaken. Even with your example of 上, you really don`t have that many once you ignore the ones with the addition of kana. Calling 明 a doozy struck me as very odd as it has relatively few readings if you ignore names (make that 2? あ and あか...)
You seem to be considering every possible reading as on the same level, where in reality 99% of the time something is read one or two ways - with the others being very very rare readings. Dictionaries make things appear more daunting than they are in reality.