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01-10-2010, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by manganimefan227 View Post
Is it a bad idea to assume that all kanji is going to have it's Hiragana written beside it? Is it safer to just learn the kanji? Are there certain rules to writing hiragana next to Kanji?

Help is appreciated



I know I'm nooby and annoying, I'm just starting to learn Japanese . . .
Yes, it is a terrible idea. First of all, practically nothing on the Internet will have furigana because it's technologically impossible in HTML to do furigana.

Second, in the real world, furigana is really only used for "difficult" kanji.

Here is a scan of a page from the Asahi Shimbun: http://www.mudaijp.com/wp/wp-content...008/09/056.jpg

Notice that there are no furigana at all. This is just a regular newspaper in Japan. Imagine what something not written for general readership would be like.
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