jukujikun
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Japanese 熟字訓 (jukujikun, literally “compound character reading”).
Noun[edit]
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jukujikun (plural jukujikun)
- (linguistics) A Japanese word whose kanji spelling conveys the meaning based on the individual characters, but whose reading is not directly related to the spelling.
Related terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Taylor, I., & Taylor, M. M. (1995) Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 302.
Japanese[edit]
Romanization[edit]
jukujikun