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.
gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form search-only kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- red seabroom (Digenea simplex)
- dewormer made from red seabroom, licorice and rhubarb
gikun or jukujikun godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to smile (gently)
gikun or jukujikun usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- elongate ilisha (Ilisha elongata), Chinese herring
gikun or jukujikun archaic noun noun (generic)
- blackmail, extortion, coercion
gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading formal or literary term noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) noun noun (generic) adverb archaic
- some, few, a number of, a little (bit)
- somewhat, to a certain extent, a bit
- many, a lot
gikun or jukujikun historical term noun noun (generic)
- helmet cape, cloth covering one's back to protect against arrows during battle
gikun or jukujikun archaic poetical term noun noun (generic)
- heat shimmer, heat haze, shimmering of hot air
- glow of dawn, gleam of daybreak
gikun or jukujikun obsolete term noun noun (generic)
- hermit crab
gikun or jukujikun usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to infect (someone), to spread (an infection), to pass (a disease)
gikun or jukujikun archaic noun noun (generic)
- wet nurse, nursing mother