Definitions
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- noun linguistics The use of
kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic or semantic value to represent foreign or native Japanese words, or thekanji so used.
Etymologies
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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There are ways of choosing kanji based on meaning, called ateji or forcing a reading on a character.
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Once this verb had been born, ateji were used to write it -- maybe because of a desire to pun, maybe because the first person to write it down wasn't aware of the etymology.
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So, to summarise: we have inaccurate S-J ateji used to write a verb which is a back-formation from a legitimate S-J word.
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One of his tidbits:gomakasu -- means "misrepresent in a deceptive way", and again, has ateji that mean "mis-bewitch-style" + s + u.
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