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 N4 noun noun (generic)
- reason, grounds, pretext, excuse, motive
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- today, this day
- these days, recently, nowadays
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective
- adult, grown-up
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- parents, both parents
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 noun noun (generic)
- details, particulars, sequence of events, circumstances, situation, how things got this way
- longitude and latitude
- warp and weft, warp and woof
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 N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- tomorrow
- near future
popular gikun or jukujikun irregular kanji usage JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- orphan
- person without friends
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- fate, destiny, lot
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- sisters