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"Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희)" <soyeomul@doraji.xyz> writes:

> On 2016년 8월 9일 오전 9시 27분 53초 GMT+09:00, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:
>> [...snip...]
>>> the "Ma" is actually the Unicode 0x771F char,
>> [...snip...]
>>It's always confused me, because that character is pronounced "zhen" in
>>Chinese. It's always messed with my head a little bit.
>
> In Korea, that pronounce is [jin]. 
> Kanji is not easy to people, indeed ...

I can mostly handle different pronunciations, but what really fries my
noodle is when Japanese has multi-syllable pronunciations for single
characters. For whatever reason, my brain's firmware has burnt into it
"one character = one syllable". Breaking that rule makes me twitch a
little.