Counter for islands? I have found the following sentence in my practising book (only is written in kanji because it's in one of the first lessons): > 1. I am guessing that is the counter for islands. Is that right? 2. Can it be written like ?

You are correct on both accounts. With the kanji for being used, this sentence would be written as

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The first would use the kun reading and the second would use the on reading .

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