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 rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone Ichidan verb verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to feel dizzy, to have blood rush to one's head
- to lose one's cool
- to be obsessed, to be infatuated
- to become conceited
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) transitive verb
- to beg, to pester, to plead, to coax, to hound, to importune
popular gikun or jukujikun rarely used kanji form usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- sitting cross-legged
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic)
- cousin (male)
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form JLPT N3 usually written using kana alone pre-noun adjectival adjective (generic)
- what is called, what you call, what they call, so-called
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- appropriate, adequate, suitable, fitting, worthy
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kanji form JLPT N1 usually written using kana alone な adjective adjective (generic)
- tranquil, calm, quiet, peaceful, serene
- mild (weather), balmy
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form search-only kanji form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- good(-tasting), nice, delicious, tasty
- attractive (offer, opportunity, etc.), appealing, convenient, favorable, desirable, profitable
popular gikun or jukujikun search-only kana form JLPT N5 usually written using kana alone い adjective adjective (generic)
- bad(-tasting), unpalatable, unsavoury, unsavory, awful, terrible, unpleasant
- poor, unskillful, unskilful, bungling, clumsy
- ugly, unattractive, homely, plain
- awkward, problematic, troublesome, unfavorable, unfavourable, unwise
popular gikun or jukujikun JLPT N2 godan verb godan verb (archaic) verb (generic) intransitive verb
- to be popular, to come into fashion
- to be prevalent, to spread widely (e.g. disease), to be endemic
- to flourish, to thrive