jukujikun

English

Etymology

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

Noun
Examples
  • 大 (ō-, “big”) + 人 (hito, “person”) = 大人 (otona, “adult”)
  • 煙 (kemuri, “smoke”) + 草 (kusa, “grass”) = 煙草 (tabako, “tobacco”)
  • 七 (nana, “7”) + 夕 (yū, “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.

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

Japanese

Romanization

jukujikun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of じゅくじくん
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