しゃっくん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of しゃっくん – see the following entry.

【借訓】 [noun] using the 訓読(くんよ)み (kun'yomi, “native Japanese reading”) of kanji to represent 大和(やまと)言(こと)葉(ば) (yamato kotoba, “native Japanese words”), irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning

(This term, しゃっくん (shakkun), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)