jukujikun

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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.

Examples

Examples of jukujikun for inflectional words follow. Source: Internet

The underlying word for jukujikun is a native Japanese word or foreign borrowing, which either does not have an existing kanji spelling (either kun'yomi or ateji) or for which a new kanji spelling is produced. Source: Internet

In rare cases jukujikun is also applied to inflectional words (verbs and adjectives), in which case there is frequently a corresponding Chinese word. Source: Internet

The latter method is more common, especially since some words in Japanese have unique pronunciations ( jukujikun ) that are not related to readings of any of the characters the word is written with. Source: Internet

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