Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

>>849
Kanji has many different readings
On-yomi = Readings from Chinese, these usually are for compound kanji 食事
Kun-yomi = Readings Japanese made up, these are usually kanji by themselves, and anytime there's hiragana attached to a kanji, it's kun-yomi 食べる
Nanori = Kanji from Japanese name, sometimes they have Kun-yomi readings, sometimes they don't.