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How are Hiragana readings handled for Kanji?

April 26, 2017handled hiragana kanji readings

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How are Hiragana readings handled for Kanji?

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There is no algorithmic mapping from Kanji characters to the phonetic readings for those characters, because there is too much linguistic variation. The common practice for sorting in a database by reading is to store the reading in a separate field, and construct the sort keys from the readings.