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Japanese
| For pronunciation and definitions of あてじ – see the following entry.
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| 【当て字】
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- The use of kanji chosen primarily for their phonetic (narrow sense) or semantic (broad sense) value to represent foreign or native Japanese words, or the kanji so used.
- A kanji character whose presence in a kanji compound is for euphony instead of meaning, e.g., 無 (na) in 水無月 (minazuki).
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| (This term, あてじ (ateji), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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