吏読
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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吏 | 読 |
り Grade: S |
とう Grade: 2 |
Alternative spelling |
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吏讀 (kyūjitai) |
Etymology
Unknown. The name is first found in 1444 in the work of Choe Manri, but the practice was in use for many centuries preceding that. Variously written 吏読, 吏道, 吏吐, etc. Only the first character "clerk" is common and suggests that it was a system used by government clerks.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
- Idu, an archaic method of writing Korean with Chinese characters; the syntax is Korean order and includes Chinese characters to represent Korean grammar
See also
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 吏 read as り
- Japanese terms spelled with 読 read as とう
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms with multiple readings
- Japanese terms spelled with secondary school kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji
- ja:Orthography
- ja:Korea