再読文字

Japanese

Alternative spelling
再讀文字 (kyūjitai)

Examples

猶(なお)…ごとし (nao…gotoshi, “is just like”)
将(まさ)に…す (masa ni…su, “is about to”)
須(すべから)く…べし (subekaraku…beshi, “should”)
未(いま)だ…ず (imada…zu, “not yet”)
宜(よろし)く…べし (yoroshiku…beshi, “ought to”)
Literary Chinese:
- 亡
  perish
- 將亡
  will perish
Japanese:
- 亡(ほろ)ぶ
  horobu
  perish
- 将(まさ)に亡(ほろ)びんとす
  masa ni horobin to su
  will perish
Literary Chinese:
- 知生
  understand life
- 未知生
  not yet understand life
Japanese:
- 生(せい)を知(し)る
  sei o shiru
  understand life
- 未(いま)だ生(せい)を知(し)らず
  imada sei o shirazu
  not yet understand life

From 再読(さいどく) (saidoku, “read again”) + 文字(もじ) (moji, “character”).

再(さい)読(どく)文(も)字(じ) • (saidoku moji)

twice-read character: kanji that must be read twice in the kanbun kundoku (漢文訓読) process

^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN