ぎくん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ぎくん – see the following entry.
【義訓】
[noun] false reading (a kanji compound whose reading does not match the readings of its component characters).
[noun] reading of a kanji by meaning; a kanji compound whose characters are used for meaning, not sound, such as 今日(きょう) (kyō, “today”).
(This term, ぎくん (gikun), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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