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Adverb better in kana

hiragana-fukushion by default (info)Japanese

A Japanese adverb written in rare kanji where kana is easier to read

Example

Flagged
参加者の殆どが、勿論その案に賛成しました。
What chaff prints
1:1 「殆ど」は ひらがなで書くのが読みやすいです
Fixed
参加者のほとんどが、もちろんその案に賛成しました。
What chaff prints
no finding

How to fix

Write it in kana.

Why it matters

Adverbs written with rare kanji split readers into those who can read them and those who cannot. Kana costs nothing.

What it does not flag

Only the adverbs on chaff's list are checked; adverbs normally written in common kanji are not.

Turning it off or relaxing it

Silence this one spot (in the document)
<!-- stet: hiragana-fukushi — reason -->
Relax it for the team (the reason is kept as a comment in chaff.yaml)
npx chaffjs relax hiragana-fukushi --why "reason"
Turn it off for the team (chaff.yaml)
rules: hiragana-fukushi: off
Technical details
Layer
L3
Status
stable
Severity
info
Languages
ja
Suited to
blog, business, technical, legal, docs, academic, literature, speech

Levels

Set a level for this rule under rules in chaff.yaml. With nothing set, it runs at the level its genre gives it (see By genre below).

strictreported once there are 1
normalreported once there are 1
relaxedreported once there are 3

By genre

Runs by default in
technical/spec, technical/readme, blog/tech, blog/essay, blog/owned-media, business/proposal, business/report, business/email, business/press-release, business/meeting-notes, legal/contract, legal/statute, legal/judgment, legal/patent, docs/manual, docs/faq, docs/glossary, academic/paper, speech/address
Turned off by the genre in
literature/fiction, literature/essay, literature/poetry, literature/play, speech/transcript

Genres

Message

"{matched}" reads more easily in kana

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/hiragana-fukushi.yaml