jukujikun
Meanings
noun
- A Japanese word whose kanji spelling conveys the meaning based on the individual characters, but whose reading is not directly related to the spelling.
Word forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 熟字訓 (jukujikun, literally “compound character reading”).
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