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Support for furigana
A simple question from a novice at kanji . How can I type furigana text above a kanji, for sake of precision? I have browsed on the Web and I have installed the Google gboard. I cannot find out the ...
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Is asking how to use the Japanese mobile phone keyboard on topic?
I recently got the Japanese keyboard on my iPhone, because I’m trying to learn Japanese with Duolingo (though it’s mostly just teaching me romāji, not really the characters or how they go together).
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Attributions to the citing sources should be explicitly mandatory
Previous discussions:
Explicit rule about including source material or references, September 2020
Please tell us what you're quoting!, September 2014
Related:
What should I do if I was asked for ...
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Isn’t asking for resources off-topic?
I saw this question just now, and was confused. Isn’t asking about how to learn things off topic, according to the site guide? And why was this question on Meta?
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Resource which presents a kanji's lexemes by reading or by reading type
Is there a lexicographic resource that, for every kanji, presents a list of lexemes containing the given kanji (not necessarily in initial position) where the lexemes are ordered by the kanji's ...
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Is a question about how much the Japapenese Duolingo course can teach you on topic?
I want to ask a question about how much the Japanese Duolingo course can teach you (on average). I also want to know the maximum amount of knowledge the course can teach you, and what your knowledge ...
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Where and how can I ask about complete lists?
I would like to ask experts a bunch of "list" questions. Generally I'm interested in the vocabulary of a well-educated native speaker of the present-day language.
For example, I would like ...
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JAPANESE LANGUAGE METAに7ページ目がありません?
いつの間にか JAPANESE LANGUAGE METAに迷い込んでしまった時のこと、ふと見ると7ページ目がありません。
なぜでしょうか?
スクリーンショット
https://ibb.co/F6Z0rPr
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Should we aim for a consistent style for quoted text?
When someone posts a question containing a Japanese sentence that they have a specific problem with, my first instinct is to edit the question to put the text in a quote block (assuming the OP hasn't ...
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Resources to check and correct/explain grammar in sentences
I still feel really novice in my Japanese, especially in regards to grammar and sentence structure, but I want to start piecing together the vocabulary I've learned into full sentences in the hope ...
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Problem with Goo dictionary
Whenever I try to go to the goo dictionary these days I get the following error:
お客様のリクエストはNTTドコモのセキュリティポリシーにより拒否されました。
The Request was rejected by our security policy.
However, if someone links a ...
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宿題らしき質問についてのこれからの方針
日本語
当提示板では明確に宿題である質問にたいする対処についての方針が曖昧な気がします。
例えば、この質問（誤字をさがしたら正しい漢字を書きなさい）は問題集などから写されたらしきものであり、コメント欄の@Leeboさんに同意したい所存ですが、過去にも"homework"というタグ(Let's destroy the "homework" tag)...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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Using AI to learn Japanese
I've been using ChatGPT to learn Japanese specifically in getting vocab. My prompt is:
Always answer in this format for Japanese Word
Kanji(furigana)
JLPT level:
Commonness:
Formality:
Usually ...
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How does filtering in Shirabe Jisho work?
I’m trying to filter out uncommon words in my dictionary searches. Here I’m expecting to see 語, yet I’m getting the tag name in my results. What am I doing wrong?
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Is there an easy way to create a link to past questions?
When I refer to past questions, I find it cumbersome to create a viewer-friendly link to it, i.e. the text title with the link to the question. I often feel lazy and just put http://japanese....
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Irritating 'gramma' tag
It seems that someone has accidentally created a tag with the name 'gramma'. This comes up as the first option when you are trying to use the 'grammar' tag. Is there some way we can get rid of this ...
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English-to-Japanese dictionary with a free license like JMdict?
JMdict is the popular liberally-licensed Japanese-to-English dictionary that powers all the websites and apps for English speakers learning Japanese.
Are there any projects that go in the opposite ...
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is there any mobile phone font that can annotate kanji by hiragana, can somebody recommend me one?
like mirigana plugin in twiter, hiragana is above the kanji
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What is the difference between the "Parsing" tag and the "Reading Comprehension" tag?
I feel like these two tags are mostly synonymous.
Both are about understanding a sentence. I agree that "Parsing" is more of an analysis and micro-inspection of which part of the text while &...
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Etymological dictionary with kanji type and compounds/radicals
I'm looking for an etymological dictionary preferably in online form to look up the 六書 (the six classes of kanji characters) and the compounds/radicals of a kanji. I know I can use 広辞苑 (Kōjien). But ...
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Can we shorten/remove the question title length requirement?
Currently, the JSE requires its question titles be at least 15 characters long. However, this 15-character requirement was set for English, in which a word is easily 4-10 letters long, and any ...
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Can we allow mathjax on the japanese stack exchange site so that questions about japanese mathematicans can be asked?
Some people might want to ask questions about the Japanese words for mathematical symbols.
Can we allow the MathJax plugin on the Japanese stack exchange?
¿What word do Japanese mathematicians use for ...
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Seeing deleted posts -- a couple different use cases
I am curious if there is any facility for finding deleted posts.
One use case is to view deleted posts by a specific user, to see if there is a clear trend. C.f. this user, who appears to be making ...
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Whether to close or delete one's own question
If you ask a question which is the result of a misreading, typo or some other triviality and someone posts an answer, what is the best course of action?
If the help came in the form of a comment I ...
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Policy on banning AI-generated content
While there is no network-wide policy on AI-generated answers such as those produced by ChatGPT, judging from our moderating experience over the past months and the related meta discussion, we the ...
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How do I find TTS that can read vertical text?
I tried using Microsoft Edge's read aloud but it glitches for vertical text ebooks. Does anyone know where one can find TTS ?
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How do you type Encircled Kanji? (丸囲み文字)
I am needing to use a lot of encircled kanji. (See Usage of Encircled Kanji)
However, I am using Linux, and I cannot find any information on how to actually type the encircled kanji on Linux. Copying ...
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Bump line-height for comments which use LH pitch accent markings
Right now, the accent marking across two lines sort of merge together in comments. If we could selectively (or even not selectively) raise the line-height by an extra px or two when pitch accent ...
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How to make yourself able to hear pitch accent?
I have hit a wall in my study of Japanese: I am unable to hear differences in pitch accent. None of the other languages I am familiar with use it (those being Hungarian(native), English and French), ...
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Are AI-generated answers banned?
I recently was alerted that an answer had been submitted for one of my unanswered questions (archive link), which I asked a few months ago. I took a look, and found an answer which immediately struck ...
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Is there a way to use the furigana and pitch accent engine for other websites?
I would like to include the code for the furigana this site uses into my website. Is it publicly available? How do I implement it? Thanks.
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Bolding/italicizing parenthesized text
When I use asterisks to bold/italicize by **（** inside (right after) zenkaku text, I get the following - （, 【, { are not bolded:
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あ**（** あ<b>（</b>
い*a* い<i>a</i>
う**＜*...
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Problem with apples hiragana keyboard
So I use the Japanese Kana keyboard on an Apple iPhone, and i started off with a bunch of problems, but the solutions eventually showed themselves without much issue, such as how to use small ...
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How do I type っ on an iPhone kana keyboard?
You can press the た key 6 times consecutively to write っ on an iPhone kana keyboard, but that seems inconvenient. Is there a faster way to write っ?
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Help. I can't type 女 using Microsoft's IME
For some reason the 女 kanji is missing from the Microsoft IME. When I type 'onna' none of the suggestions are the 女 kanji. I also can't use it in words, for example, when I type 'onna no ko' the IME ...
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Do we have any "checkuser" functionality here to ascertain details about a specific user?
I have no interest myself in using such features. I am primarily interested in whether moderators have any additional tools that could help ascertain the validity or personhood of a given user.
Case ...
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電子辞書 recommendation wanted
This is a cross-post because it's for a hardware recommendation that is specific to Japanese.
I am looking for a good 電子辞書 to suit my needs, so I posted on Hardware Recommendations Stack Exchange.
It ...
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Japanese sentence as question title
I recently had an old post edited to replace a generic title with the Japanese sentence in question. I have no problem with the edit but I'm intrigued as to the motivation. I normally strive to make a ...
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Notating 尾高型 pitch pattern in isolation
A classic example word-set for pitch-accent is 端/箸/橋.
With number notation or downstep notation we can distinguish all three:
端: はし⓪ or はし
箸: はし① or はꜜし
橋: はし② or はしꜜ
However with the (otherwise ...
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How to bulk-convert horizontally-oriented Japanese text to vertically oriented?
I would like to bulk-convert a largish amount of horizontally-oriented Japanese text to vertically oriented.
I tried using this online converter
https://www.izuna.sylphid.jp/izuna_web.html
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Good Kanji book for Japanese beginner
Could you suggest some good Kanji books for Japanese beginner?
I have checked these resources, Resources for learning Japanese, didn't find any useful ones...
Thank you!
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How are these fake accounts being created?
We're currently having an issue with a troll on this site, who is creating accounts that impersonate (real) user Eddie Kal.
https://japanese.stackexchange.com/users/51692/eddie-kal
https://japanese....
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Content filters and/or IP range blocking?
There has recently been a barrage of blatantly abusive posts by what appears to be a single individual, creating a series of user accounts that mostly have "kukel" somewhere in the username.
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Chiebukuro no longer available in the EEA
Chiebukuro is a site many answers have referenced in the past, and very helpful, but since February 1 2022, it is no longer available in the EEA. This leaves a lot of sources on answers inaccessible ...
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Free fonts designed for visually impaired people for japanese language?
Are there some free fonts to write japanese specifically designed for visually impaired people? Like these ones for the latin alphabet:
https://www.luciole-vision.com/luciole-en.html
https://...
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Broken furigana parsing in questions page
This post has furigana in the title. It renders fine when looking at the post itself, but when you see it in the questions page the kana and braces are shown in-line with the main text. I'm sure this ...
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Sanseidō Daijirin, 3rd edition, link rot
The link for Sanseidō Daijirin, 3rd edition here in the resources post seems to have expired. Any idea where else it can be found online? Or should we remove it from the resources post?
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