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SUMMARY OF COMMON VARIANT CORRESPONDENCES

Not included here are the usual, predictable correspondences such as Japanese b representing English 'b', Japanese sy representing English 'sh', etc.
Romanized:may correspond to English:as in:
aa

b
do
ee
gy (before a)
h
ho + wa
i
i + vowel
ky (before a)		ar, er, ir, or, ur

v
d
y + vowel
g
f
wh +vowel
-
y + vowel
k		maaku   'mark'
raitaa   'lighter'
banira   'vanilla'
dorai   'dry'
eeru   'Yale'
gyappu   'gap'
hooku   'fork'
howaito   'white'
matti   'match'
iesu   'yes'
kyabaree   'cabaret'
"...one-fourth of all the characters used in modern Japanese occur in three-fourths of all the most frequently occurring words. This means that by concentrating on learning approximately 500 select characters, the student is assured of being able to read 75% of all the high-frequency words he will encounter in modern literature." - The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power.

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