Re: [edict-jmdict] "Often written in kana (without kanji)"

[Darren Cook <darren@*********>]

> In the usage examples I've found, にじむ appears without any kanji quite
> often in books, newspapers, the Tanaka corpus and Japanese language
> textbooks, whilst it is also used as 滲む a lot on the Internet.

One thing I like about my Casio ex-word (i.e. the Shogakukan Progressive
dictionary) is it marks non-joyo-kanji with a "x". 滲む is marked as
such (which nicely explains why books and newspapers use the hiragana;
people using the internet just press henkan).

Even more useful for me is that marks joyo kanji with a reading that is
not in joyo-kanji with a triangle. E.g. さすが　流石 gets triangles on
both kanji. 煮染め (にしめ) gets a triangle on just the 染 kanji.

> A counter-argument might be that the (selected) example sentences from
> the Tanaka corpus can already illustrate this usage, as is the case
> with にじむ.

I think this is a very good counter argument :-).

E.g. (to tie in with another thread) in GG5 all the examples for 得る　
when pronounced うる and meaning できる use the hiragana form.

Darren


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