当て字
Japanese
[edit]| Kanji in this term | |
|---|---|
| 当 | 字 |
| あ Grade: 2 |
じ Grade: 1 |
| yutōyomi | |
| Alternative spellings |
|---|
| 當て字 (kyūjitai) 宛て字 充て字 当字 宛字 |
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- The use of kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic (narrow sense) or semantic (broad sense) value to represent foreign or native Japanese words, or the kanji so used.
- A kanji character whose presence in a kanji compound is for euphony instead of meaning, e.g., 無 (na) in 水無月 (minazuki).
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- Category:Japanese terms spelled with ateji
- 仮借 (kasha)
- 熟字訓 (jukujikun)
- 義訓 (gikun)
- 万葉仮名 (man'yōgana)
References
[edit]- “当て字”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia][1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025
Categories:
- Japanese terms spelled with 当 read as あ
- Japanese terms spelled with 字 read as じ
- Japanese terms read with yutōyomi
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Japanese terms with Heiban pitch accent (Tōkyō)
- Japanese terms with IPA pronunciation with pitch accent
- Japanese lemmas
- Japanese nouns
- Japanese terms spelled with second grade kanji
- Japanese terms spelled with first grade kanji
- Japanese terms with 2 kanji