ALL 4 kanji can - depending on the context - be pronounced "eki". By the way, there are about TWELVE more kanji that can be pronounced "eki" - to name just the 5 most frequent ones: 益 易 疫 亦 腋
How come?
Japanese is a language that has MANY homophones: words or syllables that sound the same but have different meanings. "Many" is a sort of understatement: there are exceedingly many homophones - for historical reasons too complicated to summarize in a few words.
This, as you can well imagine, is the reason why Japanese keep their kanji: the kanji conveys ONE meaning, independent of what the pronounciation is.
Yooooo I just learned that word it means railway station and the Kanji is é§ .
Kanji is learned like that. The Chinese mean different things next to each other.
æ¥æ¬ means Japan. If you take away "æ¥". You are left with æ¬ which means book. Which I was like WTF when I first found that out.
I realized that the symbols have meaning like é» (den) is the symbol for electricity. è» (kuruma) is the symbol for car. Combining it makes; é»è» is electric train. It wouldn't be written as "Den kuruma" though its "Densha" which is electric train or ã§ããã.
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ALL 4 kanji can - depending on the context - be pronounced "eki". By the way, there are about TWELVE more kanji that can be pronounced "eki" - to name just the 5 most frequent ones: 益 易 疫 亦 腋
How come?
Japanese is a language that has MANY homophones: words or syllables that sound the same but have different meanings. "Many" is a sort of understatement: there are exceedingly many homophones - for historical reasons too complicated to summarize in a few words.
This, as you can well imagine, is the reason why Japanese keep their kanji: the kanji conveys ONE meaning, independent of what the pronounciation is.
Yooooo I just learned that word it means railway station and the Kanji is é§ .
Kanji is learned like that. The Chinese mean different things next to each other.
æ¥æ¬ means Japan. If you take away "æ¥". You are left with æ¬ which means book. Which I was like WTF when I first found that out.
I realized that the symbols have meaning like é» (den) is the symbol for electricity. è» (kuruma) is the symbol for car. Combining it makes; é»è» is electric train. It wouldn't be written as "Den kuruma" though its "Densha" which is electric train or ã§ããã.