List: gikun (meaning as reading) or jukujikun (special kanji reading)
Gikun and jukujikun are readings of kanji combinations that have no direct correspondence to the characters' individual on'yomi or kun'yomi readings.
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- parents, both parents
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- another person, other people, others
- unrelated person (i.e. not related by blood)
- outsider, stranger
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- rural area, countryside, the sticks
- hometown
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- storm, windstorm, gale
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- onnagata, male actor in female kabuki roles
- female partner (in a relationship)
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
popular gikun or jukujikun familiar language noun noun (generic) Hokkaido-ben
- one's father, one's old man, dad, pops
- middle-aged (or older) man, old man, geezer
- one's boss
- proprietor (of a restaurant, store, etc.), landlord
- grizzly bear
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- child, small person
- dwarf, midget
- narrow-minded person, mean person
popular gikun or jukujikun usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- rose
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- rainstorm, storm