Japanese Explained to Programmers

Re:Japanese Explained to Programmers by rjh29 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:16AM (#34597079)

I have not seen 苹果 before, where did you see it? It looks Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedia calls it "簡体字中国語表記". I don't think most native speakers can read it!

林檎 for sure is common.

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Re:Japanese Explained to Programmers by Anon1096 on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:33AM (#34597335)

According to jpdb possibly the only visual novel with the spelling and to be honest it was in an excerpt of a translation of a play, and it had furigana. :p https://jpdb.io/vocabulary/1555480/%E8%8B%B9%E6%9E%9C/used-i...

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Re:Japanese Explained to Programmers by ickoonite on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @07:00PM (#34604210)

Outside of Chinese (where it is standard), I’ve not seen 苹果 before, but the Japanese input on iOS suggests it after a bit of scrolling. It’s in the dictionary on there as well, where the pronunciation is given as ひょうか or へいか, which is fairly logical.

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