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Tricky readings

How do you read 凡例 in Japanese?
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QUESTION 03Difficulty ★★☆

How do you read this in Japanese?

凡例

Think of your answer before you look.

HINTShow hint

You read this explanation to understand how to use a book or interpret map symbols. 凡 is not read the same way here as in 平凡.

More on radicals and this quiz’s stroke counts

Describe the shapes you see

You do not need to know the radical’s name. Try these searches for this quiz’s characters.

  • kanji shaped like the right side of 机 with a dot inside

  • kanji with person radical next to 列

  • Japanese reading of the kanji for a map key

These searches describe visual similarities, not formal radicals or character components.

凡 is classified under 几 and 例 under 人. The person radical often appears in words related to people, but a radical does not determine a word’s meaning or reading.

凡3 strokes / radical: 几 (table radical)

例8 strokes / radical: 人 (person radical)

Stroke counts and radicals follow the Japanese dictionary Kanjipedia; other dictionaries may differ.

Kanjipedia「凡」 ／ Kanjipedia「例」

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The answer is

はんれい

hanrei

凡例

Understand the meaning

A guide to the conventions used in a book or map. It may explain abbreviations and notation in a book, or the meanings of symbols and colors on a map.

An illustration comparing a map with a legend showing what its symbols mean.
Understand the symbols, read the map.AI-generated illustration

See it in a sentence

地図の凡例を見て、色や記号が表すものを確かめた。

I checked the map legend to see what its colors and symbols represented.

A way to remember

凡例 is read hanrei. Do not simply carry over the bon reading from 平凡 (heibon); learn the reading of the whole word.

Sources：Kanjipedia: 凡例

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