Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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Free Japanese Grammar Material
I self-study Japanese. I am at JLPT N3 Level (if we will base it on the certificate that I have). However, I really think I'm weak with grammar. I mostly understand when someone speaks Japanese, but I ...
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Kodansha 大辞泉: what are the kanji enclosed in circles?
When searching the Kodansha 大辞泉 by 音読み, for many 音読み entries there are small kanji symbols in a circle such as 漢 or 呉 or 唐. (Unfortunately this dialog box doesn't allow me to put the circle around ...
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Any software to transcribe Japanese audio?
I have some recordings of Japanese speech that I can't clearly hear and it's a bit annoying to have to unplug my earphones and set my speakers on full blast so to pick it back up on my mic and have it ...
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How to change the romanized conversion table in mozc?
With Anthy, I had a custom table, such that <l> was used for <ん> for instance. I found this more convenient than using a context-sensitive system or pressing <nn> all the time, but I ...
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Is it worth re-doing RTK, or should I just learn Kanji through reading (and forget writing all together)?
I learnt the 常用漢字 last year (approx. 2200) via RTK, but due to work commitments, I lapsed on my revision and have essentially forgotten most of my Anki cards.
Is it worth re-doing them, or would I be ...
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Is there a way I can type classical Japanese (文語) relatively easily?
I was taking some notes for classical Japanese, but it's hard for my to type simple words because my IME (Microsoft's default Japanese IME on Windows 11) doesn't show the proper kanji for their ...
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This is not an opinion. It should not be closed for being opinion based
I am not a frequent user here. But I have to say having my well-recieved question (now migrated) closed with no explanation other than that it is "opinion-based" speaks really poorly for the ...
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List of Japanese idioms sorted by popularity
I'm interested in learning common Japanese phrases like idioms.
But naturally I don't want to waste time on phrases that aren't commonly used. For instance, in English phrases like "bark up the ...
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Pornographic post — one user castigated another user who edited the offending image away
In a recent thread, a spam answer containing pornography was uploaded (it's now deleted).
When I saw it, I immediately flagged it, but the post remained up for more than half an hour. Then, another ...
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Cannot search for posts of deleted user
Fortunately, the posts of users whose accounts have been deleted remain available to view. However, I can no longer search for them. A search for "user:4032" yields nothing.
Is this a bug? ...
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Community bot bumping many old "unanswered" questions that actually do have answers
I've noticed the "Community" bot bumping a lot of older question threads to the top of the queue. If you go into the activity history, the "bump" action has the comment text:
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Goodbye @lélecteur
Just noticed that this user deleted their account few hours ago. It is unfortunate that we didn't throw a farewell party before it happened :'((
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Furigana font changes?
Is it my imagination or has the furigana changed to a different (and, in my opinion, less easy to read) font? I was looking at this post and things looked a bit strange.
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2021: a year in moderation
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As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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How to handle highly upvoted answers of suspect credibility
I linked a post today where the top voted answer has been discredited by two native speakers. As a mere amateur I have no way of knowing the truth but I strongly believe that the native speakers are ...
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Why do people comment on a post rather than answering?
I posted a question that got resolved in the comments rather than the answers section. I'm new here, so I was wondering why that might be?
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How do I "score" the JLPT practice test?
I'm considering taking the JLPT N5 test, after a few years of part-time study with a tutor. I'm currently studying GENKI II.
I took the JLPT practice today, and got 10 of 15 correct. Is there any way ...
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Should questions like this one be closed for lack of detail?
What's difference between these?
This question has been closed as a pure translation question, me myself among the people who cast closevotes. The reason for closure is stated as follows
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Do pitch accent dictionaries exist for dialects other than Tokyo/Kantō dialect?
I know there are pitch accent dictionaries for Kantō/Tokyo/Standard Japanese, at least monolingual Japanese ones, such as NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典.
I wonder if these exist or have ever been published for other ...
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Can this answer be improved?
Is it just me or is this answer's wording kind of ambiguous and confusing? Despite the 9 votes it's amassed so far, I am having a hard time understanding its content accurately. I was trying to go ...
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Let's not use inline code spans
I've noticed an uptick in the use of the inline code span (produced by encompassing the text with ` text `) on our site, mostly for emphasis. But that is not one of its designed purposes. Nor is that ...
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Why are comments getting deleted
I've noticed over the past month that a number of my comments along with comments of others are being deleted. I'd like to know why.
Unfortunately, I can't point to any particular incident other than ...
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When we comment that translation requests are against the rules, should we not provide any translation?
To me, it seems we're incentivising bad behaviour if we respond to translation requests with comments that they are against the rules, but provide a translation anyway.
Should we avoid providing ...
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YouTube channels for listening
I was looking for YouTube channels to improve my listening, but at the moment I'm not really finding anything.
I found this and this discussions, which have interesting material, but not channels, so ...
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Massive loss of rep
I'm used to the occasional 100 points or so disappearing from my rep due to deleted users. I grumble to myself about it and then get on with life because the site is about learning Japanese, not about ...
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