jukujikun

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Japanese 熟字訓 (jukujikun, literally compound character reading).

Noun

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Examples
  • (ō-, big) + (hito, person) = 大人 (otona, adult)
  • (kemuri, smoke) + (kusa, grass) = 煙草 (tabako, tobacco)
  • (nana, 7) + (, evening) = 七夕 (Tanabata, Tanabata)

jukujikun (plural jukujikun)

  1. (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.
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References

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  • Taylor, I., & Taylor, M. M. (1995) Writing and literacy in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, p. 302.

Japanese

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Romanization

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jukujikun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of じゅくじくん