熟字訓

じゅくじくん

Meanings

1. Noun reading assigned to a kanji compound whose constituent characters are related to the word's meaning but not its pronunciation; kanji compound reading that has no correspondence to the readings of the constituent characters (e.g. 昨日 (きのう), 大人 (おとな))

Kanji

• 熟 ripe. Read as ジュク.
• 字 character
• 訓 instruct. Read as クン.

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