<span class="searchmatch">Gikun</span> word derived by applying Chinese-derived spelling <span class="searchmatch">荊棘</span> (“thorny plants”), a term which decomposes into 荊 (“thorns”) + 棘 (“thorns”), to native Japanese...
reading <span class="searchmatch">of</span> Chinese origin (on'yomi). There are thousands <span class="searchmatch">of</span> <span class="searchmatch">gikun</span> <span class="searchmatch">in</span> the <span class="searchmatch">Meiji</span> (明治) <span class="searchmatch">version</span> <span class="searchmatch">of</span> the <span class="searchmatch">Japanese</span> <span class="searchmatch">Bible</span> which can not be found <span class="searchmatch">in</span> even the...