再読文字

再読文字

Japanese

Kanji in this term
再	読	文	字
さい Grade: 5	どく Grade: 2	もん > も Grade: 1	じ Grade: 1
on’yomi		Irregular	on’yomi

Examples
Literary Chinese: 亡 perish 將亡 will perish Japanese: 亡 (ほろ)ぶ horobu perish 将 (まさ)に亡 (ほろ)びんとす masa ni horobin to su will perish Literary Chinese: 知生 understand life 未知生 not yet understand life Japanese: 生 (せい)を知 (し)る sei o shiru understand life 未 (いま)だ生 (せい)を知 (し)らず imada sei o shirazu not yet understand life

Etymology

From 再読 (さいどく) (saidoku, “read again”) + 文 (も)字 (じ) (moji, “character”).

Pronunciation

• On’yomi
  • (Tokyo) さいどくも​じ [sàídókú móꜜjì] (Nakadaka – [5])[1]
  • IPA^(key): [sa̠ido̞kɯ̟ᵝ mo̞ʑi]

Noun

再読文字 (hiragana さいどくもじ, rōmaji saidoku moji)

1. twice-read character: kanji that must be read twice in the kanbun kundoku (漢文訓読) process

Synonyms

• 再読字 (さいどくじ) (saidokuji)

See also

• 置 (お)き字 (じ) (okiji)

References

1. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN