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- |4= (help) (which includes sokuon as if it were a purely on compound). Gikun (義訓) and jukujikun (熟字訓) are readings of kanji combinations that have no...
- irregular kanji spellings (as opposed to spelling mistakes) are known as gikun (義訓, "improvised meaning-spellings"), and generally require furigana (notational...
- lit. 'tattooing'). Each of these synonyms can also be read as irezumi, a gikun reading of these kanji. Tattoos are also sometimes called horimono (彫り物...
- written with characters that can be translated as "sea mice" (an example of gikun). In English translations of these haiku, they are usually called "sea slugs"...
- manga, anime, video games, and tabletop games. This usage is known as 義訓 gikun (see also Kanji#Special readings). The specific effects vary. It may be...
- paper" or "loaf", "a loaf of bread"), long (dragon). This is an example of gikun, in which characters are used to represent a meaning or ideal and not for...
- reading simply must be learnt separately. These include especially ateji and gikun, as well as cases where a compound word has changed pronunciation over the...
- Kobayashi” (****anese: 小林剣; rōmaji: kobayashi ken) in 1985, a combination of gikun (義訓, reading of a kanji by meaning) and ateji (当て字, kanji used as phonetic...