>>>>> Jim Breen <jwb@...> writes:

>>> I know plenty of people extremely fluent and literate in Japanese who
>>> don't pretend to know the readings of [all] the JIS 208 kanji
>>> (especially the ones that don't really have any), and who find
>>> the multi-fragment technique useful to access the raw information
>>> about them.

Well, I stuck my foot in my mouth about this before (Unicode list) where I
said I thought it quite impossible that a kanji not have reading only to have
Thomas Chan kindly point out that indeed there are a handful of kanji that
don't have readings listed in an appendix to the Kangxi Zidian.

But aside from these, how in the world can a kanji not have a reading? I'm
really curious. Someone on the Unicode list had made this same, to me
amazing, statement, and he didn't seem to have the kanji Thomas Chan referred
to in mind. What gives? Have the readings just been forgotten? Examples?

Curious minds (yes multiple, I'm afraid) want to know.

Jon


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Jon Babcock <jon@...>