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.
่่ใใkumopopular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- spider
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete kanji usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- nori, laver, edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
gairaigo Portuguese origin popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- tobacco, cigarette, cigar
- tobacco plant (Nicotiana tabacum)
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- day before yesterday
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- sexagenary cycle, 60-term cycle of 12 zodiac animals combined with 5 elements in the traditional Chinese calendar; currently used in Japan for years, historically also for days
- 12-year Chinese zodiac
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading Shinto noun noun (generic)
- ritual prayer, invocation of the gods participating in a rite
- congratulatory address
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form noun noun (generic)
- occupation, calling
- livelihood
่้บฆใใฐsobapopular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N2 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) food, cooking
- buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum)
- soba, Japanese buckwheat noodles
- Chinese-style wheat noodles
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic) noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic)
- peat
popular gikun or jukujikun formal or literary term noun noun (generic)
- older brother and older sister