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) adverb
- this morning
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form JLPT N1 noun noun (generic) usually written using kana alone go (game)
- avalanche, snowslide
- avalanche, avalanche jลseki
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- onnagata, male actor in female kabuki roles
- female partner (in a relationship)
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ทใใใกใomochapopular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form JLPT N4 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- toy
- (person or thing treated as a) plaything
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- adzuki bean (Vigna angularis)
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone 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)
- brother-in-law (spouse's older brother or older sister's husband)
- older stepbrother
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic) rare term
- brother-in-law (spouse's younger brother or younger sister's husband)
- younger stepbrother
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- proprietress (of a traditional Japanese inn, restaurant, or shop), landlady, hostess, mistress, female innkeeper
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic) abbreviation usually written using kana alone
- Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)
- Inari shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto)
- fox (said to be messengers of Inari)
- fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes)
- inarizushi