>From my database with roughly 50.000 lexical entries (compounds) I get a number of 1431 compounds with at least two readings and 71 with at least three readings.
If I include also 60.000 personal and local names I get 6840 compounds with two or more, 1344 with three or more and 348 with four or more readings. Kay Genenz, Bonn > Berthold Frommann wrote: > > 生物 = 1. seibutsu, 2. namamono > > 今日 = 1. konnichi, 2. kyou > > 上手 = 1. jouzu, 2. uwate, 3. kamite > > Do you have a rough evaluation of how many compound words have multiple > readings? >
