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I'm confused, because the kanji for "come" have totally different
pronunciations here:

> 未来 = Mirai
>
> 来る = Kuru

Why is that? (Or maybe in the second example, 来 is being counted as just one
word? Or in the first example 来 is being pronounced as an adjective?)
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How come kanji has different pronunciation when matched with different words?
Although this question might be neither serious nor specific, I would write a
bit for it.

Kanji pronunciations predominantly consist of 音読み and 訓読み. Everyone who may
concern this question should already know this. And here we go:

音読み pronunciations may be adopted from different Chinese dialects in different
stages. For example, in recent decades, cities which are related China are
usually written in kanji to align to Mandarin orthography and the
pronunciations are usually borrowed from Mandarin or native dialect of the
city. Examples include 北京(ぺきん), 上海(しゃんはい), 香港(ほんこん), and 廈門(あもい). In other
cases, by no means will 京 be pronounced as きん or will 香 be pronounced ほん. Like
this time, as Chinese dialects emerged and died, Japanese people borrowed
different pronunciations of kanji from the dialects. I will attach a longer
list below.

And the 訓読み part is very clear, too. A kanji was used to represent a native
concept in writing, like they borrowed 海 to represent the sea which they
called うみ, and used 海 in combination with 苔 to represent sea weed which they
called のり. They borrowed the meaning without pronunciation for basic concepts
which were already developed before adopting kanji. Examples include 緑 and 水.
(However, for sophisticated concepts like society (社会) and diversity (多様性),
they had to borrow existing Chinese words or invent new Chinese words.) Keep
in mind that kanji was the first (but non-native) writing system used by
Japanese people and kana were derived from kanji; don't mix the order.

In short: Blame the Chinese.

Appendix:

北京 ぺきん / 上海 しゃんはい / 広州 こうしゅう / 深圳 しんせん / 天津 てんしん / 香港 ほんこん / 澳門 まかお / 台北 たいぺい
/ 武漢 ぶかん / 福州 ふくしゅう / 廈門 あもい / 東莞 とんがん / 珠海 しゅかい / 南京 なんきん / 連云港 れんうんこん / 大連
たいれん / 瀋陽 しんよう / 長春 ちょうしゅん / 哈爾濱 はるびん / 斉々哈爾 ちちはる / 拉薩 らさ / 烏魯木斉 うるむち
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