ぎくん

ぎくん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぎくん – see the following entry.

【義訓】 [noun]false reading (a kanji compound whose reading does not match the readings of its component characters). [noun]reading of a kanji by meaning; a kanji compound whose characters are used for meaning, not sound, such as 今日 (きょう) (kyō, “today”).

(This term, ぎくん, is the hiragana spelling of the Sino-Japanese term.)