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 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
popular gikun or jukujikun usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- rose
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- parade float, festival float
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- rainstorm, storm
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- sister-in-law (spouse's older sister or older brother's wife)
- older stepsister, older adopted sister, non-blood-related older sister
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- (spoken) line (in a play, film, comic, etc.), one's lines
- comment, remark, phrase, words
- stock phrase, set phrase, clichรฉ, platitude
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb
- burn, scald
- getting one's fingers burned (e.g. poor investment, mixing with the wrong people)
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) colloquial
- dusk, twilight
- twilight years
- melancholia, melancholic nostalgia
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kana form martial arts noun noun (generic)
- bamboo sword (for kendo), bamboo fencing stick
- bamboo sword