Japanese - Kanji Reading

[ManiX]

The Japanese Kanji Reading is not always correct, perhaps a problem of the automatic transcription into Romaji.
For example : go to English-Japanese-Movements- and look "to enter": there is "iru", but it must be "hairu". The speaker woman does it the right way.
I think there should only be an automatically convert from Hiragana and Katakana to Romaji, not the Kanjis. For the Kanjis there should be given a manual transcription, because there are often more than 3 possibilities for the right reading and there are nearly 2000 Kanjis in the common language use.
I haven't tested this for Chinese, but it must be the same like for the Kanjis, just in Pinjin.

Greetz Matthias

[Misha (Internet Polyglot)]

Hi!

Thank you for this post. Yes, I knew about this problem but you explained it in more details. For your reference, we are using the following Java library for conversion: http://www.kawao.com/java/kakasi/ and yes, we convert all Japanese symbols to Romaji - Katakana, Hiragana and Kanji. I can easily turn off Kanji in automatic transliteration but we don't have any [convenient] way to provide manual transcription at this moment. We are thinking about having it in the future though...

Chinese is a totally different story - we use the following Pinyin library for romanization: http://pinyin4j.sourceforge.net/

[ManiX]

Perhaps it would be helpful, when I make an Errata for the Kanji readings?
I think I will go through it anyway, when I learn the vocabulary

[ManiX]

english                      - incorrect Romaji            - correct Romaji

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English-Japanese - health :

to blow one`s nose - NinNoHanaWokamu        - HitoNoHanaWokamu

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English-Japanese - buildings :

grocery store         - hokuryouhinMise            - hokuryouhinten

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English-Japanese - car :

tow truck              - Rekka^Kuruma              - Rekka^Sha
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English-Japanese - city, streets, transportation

tow truck              - Rekka^Kuruma              - Rekka^Sha
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English-Japanese - clothing 1

a pair                   - 1Kumi                           - ??
stylish                  - sui                               
Here it is not easy:

In Japanese stylish as an adjective is sui, as a nom it is iki. Both are written with the same Kanji. The speaker woman says iki, this is the nom for ellegance.

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English-Japanese - colours

one-colored          - 1shoku                          better isshoku