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Re: [edict-jmdict] Chinese names within headwords



On 20 October 2012 20:38, Paul Upchurch <upchurch.paul@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I'd say standard order of most common to least common, whether that's the
> [ik] or not (though it probably usually will be). I'm not sure if we have
> any entries where there's an [ik] reading first, but we have at least two I
> recall where an [iK] is the first kanji: 首が座る, 無しのつぶて.
>

In these cases, e.g. 三色同順, I'd put the hiragana
first, as we are really stating it's the canonical reading.


Jim

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Jim Breen
Adjunct Snr Research Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre, Monash University