List: gikun (meaning as reading) or jukujikun (special kanji reading)
Gikun and jukujikun are readings of kanji combinations that have no direct correspondence to the characters' individual on'yomi or kun'yomi readings.
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- sisters
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- mother and child
ๆ็ฉใใ ใใฎkudamonopopular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- fruit
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading JLPT N2 noun noun (generic) archaic Kyoto-ben
- amateur, layman, ordinary person, novice
- respectable woman (i.e. not a prostitute, hostess, geisha)
- unlicensed prostitute
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form JLPT N4 noun noun (generic)
- rural area, countryside, the sticks
- hometown
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic)
- (common) cold, influenza, flu, ague, inflammatory respiratory system illness (in general)
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) adverb
- yesterday
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N3 noun noun (generic)
- local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling
- present brought by a visitor
- something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation), unwelcome gift, disservice
popular gikun or jukujikun obsolete reading usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) colloquial
- lily (Lilium spp.)
- yuri, genre of comics and novels about female homosexuality
popular gikun or jukujikun noun noun (generic)
- brethren, brothers, fellow countrymen, fellowman, compatriot