再読文字

Reading

Kana: さいどくもじ

Romaji: saidokumoji

Definition

noun

1

single kanji that is read twice (with different pronunciations) in the Japanese reading of Chinese texts

Note: e.g. 将 is read as「まさに...んとす」

See also: 漢文 (reading かんぶん, entry #2)

Kanji

再

Readings: サイ、 サ、 ふたた.び

Meanings: again, twice, second time

読

Readings: ドク、 トク、 トウ、 よ.む、 -よ.み

Meaning: read

文

Readings: ブン、 モン、 ふみ、 あや

Meanings: sentence, literature, style, art, decoration, figures, plan, literary radical (no. 67)

字

Readings: ジ、 あざ、 あざな、 -な

Meanings: character, letter, word, section of village