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It seems a bit weird that the example somehow doesn't consider 'fugashi' a compound noun and claims it's 2 nouns, 'fu kashi'. Maybe that's intended but then ap
by contravariant 6y ago
It seems a bit weird that the example somehow doesn't consider 'fugashi' a compound noun and claims it's 2 nouns, 'fu kashi'.
Maybe that's intended but then apparently this is pointless if you want to know how things are pronounced.
- Twisol 6y agoThe key aspect not captured here is "rendaku" -- the voicing of a normally unvoiced consonant in a compound word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendaku
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y agoBut rendaku rules are extremely complicated and often unpredictable , eg 中島 can be Nakashima or Nakajima depending in how the person chooses to pronounce it.
- polm23 6y agoThis is part of a tradeoff that UniDic makes between "natural" word boundaries and other factors like reproducibility and usefulness for search indexes. UniDic has a rule that a "word" (or a "short unit word" 短単位, the unit used in UniDic) can't be more than two "minimal units", where an example of a minimal unit is a kanji with a Chinese reading. So 麩菓子 can't be a word, and in this case it's 菓子 with 麩 on the front. You can read more about short unit words here. https://unidic.ninjal.ac.jp/glossary#suw https://unidic.ninjal.ac.jp/glossary#suw It's not a perfect tradeoff, and I think it can be improved, but it does have its advantages.