How do you use Okurigana in a sentence? See 9 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Okurigana in a sentence
Okurigana meaning
In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).
Using Okurigana
- The main meaning on this page is: In the Japanese language, the kana which follow a stem written with kanji, which record how that stem is inflected, and guides recognition of the appropriate kun'yomi reading (word stem associated with the kanji); for example, く (ku) and かべる (kaberu) in 浮(う)く (uk-u, “to float”, intransitive) and 浮(う)かべる (uk-aberu, “to float”, transitive), or む (mu) and きる (kiru) in 生(う)む (umu, “to birth”) and 生(い)きる (ikiru, “to live”). Perhaps analogous to -st, -nd in English 1st (first), 2nd (second).
- In the example corpus, okurigana often appears in combinations such as: okurigana are, okurigana and.
Context around Okurigana
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Okurigana
- In this selection, "okurigana" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aids, main, inflections, main and coincide stand out and add context to how "okurigana" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and inflections okurigana and characters and okurigana and their. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "okurigana" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with okurigana
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
For a kanji in isolation without okurigana, it is typically read using their kun'yomi, though there are numerous exceptions. (20 words)
Kun readings may further have a separator to indicate which characters are okurigana, and which are considered readings of the character itself. (22 words)
Occasionally okurigana coincide with the phonetic (rebus) component of phono-semantic Chinese characters, which reflects that they fill the same role of phonetic complement. (24 words)
They are used even when the inflection of the stem can be determined by a following inflectional suffix, so the primary function of okurigana for many kanji is that of a phonetic complement. (33 words)
When reading Japanese, one primarily recognizes words (multiple characters and okurigana) and their readings, rather than individual characters, and only guess readings of characters when trying to "sound out" an unrecognized word. (32 words)
Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words with no kanji representation (or whose kanji is thought obscure or difficult), as well as grammatical elements such as particles and inflections ( okurigana ). (31 words)
Example sentences (9)
Other Japanese reading aids Okurigana main Okurigana are kana that appear inline at normal size following kanji stems, typically to complete and to inflect adjectives and verbs.
For a kanji in isolation without okurigana, it is typically read using their kun'yomi, though there are numerous exceptions.
Hiragana is used to write native Japanese words with no kanji representation (or whose kanji is thought obscure or difficult), as well as grammatical elements such as particles and inflections ( okurigana ).
Kun readings may further have a separator to indicate which characters are okurigana, and which are considered readings of the character itself.
Occasionally okurigana coincide with the phonetic (rebus) component of phono-semantic Chinese characters, which reflects that they fill the same role of phonetic complement.
Okurigana are not considered to be part of the internal reading of the character, although they are part of the reading of the word.
Okurigana is also used for some nouns and adverbs, as in 情け nasake "sympathy", 必ず kanarazu "invariably", but not for 金 kane "money", for instance.
They are used even when the inflection of the stem can be determined by a following inflectional suffix, so the primary function of okurigana for many kanji is that of a phonetic complement.
When reading Japanese, one primarily recognizes words (multiple characters and okurigana) and their readings, rather than individual characters, and only guess readings of characters when trying to "sound out" an unrecognized word.
Common combinations with okurigana
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: