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Some expressions can be written part kanji part hiragana.

Sometimes I'm not sure how many hiragana actually condense into the kanji.

Example:

おとうさん

Is it お父さん or お父うさん ?

ちいさい

Is it 小さい or 小いさい ?

I hope you can see what I am referring to.

Sometimes I am not sure how many hiragana condense into the kanji.

Now I know the answer to the above examples and I can easily find the correct
kanji versions in a dictionary.

I'm just curious whether Japanese people ever have this issue or not.
Sometimes writing 大おきい instead of 大きい etc.
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kanji orthography spelling okurigana
The ''is it included in the kanji or not'' phenomenon?
This is a very interesting question. There are certain "classes" of words
where I don't think native speakers would have this problem at all. I doubt
anyone would read 父 as just 「と」, or 大 as just 「お」, unless it was [being used
cleverly in a number](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/853/78).

However, I think when using okurigana for verbs one is more likely to be
confused/unsure. Sometimes it is more of a stylistic choice than confusion.
For example, take the word
「[うけつけ](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%86%E3%81%91%E3%81%A4%E3%81%91)」. When
written with kanji, it has four "acceptable" forms:

  * 受け付け
  * 受付け
  * 受け付
  * 受付

Depending on the context where it appears, one may be preferred over the
others. I'd be willing to bet that in pure verb-usage, the "correct" form
would use both けs. But even I'm not positive on that.

But then there are times that can cause genuine confusion. For example, take
the verbs 「[[逃]{に}がす](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AB%E3%81%8C%E3%81%99)」
and 「[[逃]{のが}す](https://jisho.org/search/%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8C%E3%81%99)」. Though
they have very similar meanings, there are also [nuances of
each](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/11930/78). But since they both end
in 「がす」, you'd better believe that even native speakers will occasionally mix
up their readings.

(Protip: The にs — [逃]{に}げる and [逃]{に}がす — both have two-kana okurigana; the のs
— [逃]{のが}れる and [逃]{のが}す — have the が as part of the kanji.)
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