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One kanji off in a long compound

kanji-compound-slipon by defaultJapanese

A long kanji compound written once with one kanji changed

Example

How to fix

If it is a slip, write it the way the rest of the document does. If it is another word on purpose, leave it.

Why it matters

A document that writes 就職氷河期世代 ("the employment ice-age generation") several times and 就職永河期世代 once has a slip of the pen, and a kanji that looks like another is easy to miss. chaff compares each kanji compound of four or more characters written at least three times with compounds of the same length written once or twice that differ in one kanji. It reports one only where the morphological analyser cannot read the changed word (永 / 河 / 期 come apart) while the usual form holds that kanji inside one word (氷河期). Two real words told apart on purpose (第一条 and 第二条, 前年度 and 今年度, 関係会社 and 関連会社) and the first or last kanji of a run (資本金等, 取締役会又は) are not reported.

What it does not flag

Not reported when the analyser reads both forms as words (関係会社 and 関連会社), when the document writes the changed word elsewhere (質権 beside 当該質権者), when the differing kanji is a number, an order, a part of an address in a statute or a unit of time (第一条 and 第二条, 前年度 and 今年度, 同条 and 同項, 五日以内 and 五年以内), when it is the first or last kanji of the run (資本金等 beside 資本金及), when the usual form appears fewer than three times or not more than twice as often, or when the other form appears three times or more.

Turning it off or relaxing it

This page is built from the rule's definition file:packages/chaff/rules/kanji-compound-slip.yaml