じゅくじくん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of じゅくじくん – see the following entry.

【熟字訓】 [noun] a kanji compound used to semantically write a native Japanese word, with individual kanji not corresponding to discrete elements in the native Japanese word: as in 今日(きょう) (kyō, “today”) or 大人(おとな) (otona, “adult”)

(This term, じゅくじくん (jukujikun), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)