本字

 

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本字

1. original character; etymological character

• This term is commonly used for Chinese topolects, in which morphemes may be written with etymologically inappropriate characters or missing a character entirely. With the hypothesis that they are identifiable as pre-existing characters, researchers strive to identify the ancestral "etymological character" from classical character dictionaries.

• 正文 (zhèngwén)

• 訓讀／训读 (xùndú)

• IPA^(key): [hõ̞ɲ̟d͡ʑi]

本(ほん)字(じ) • (honji) 

1. kanji (as opposed to kana)
2. standard kanji (as opposed to abbreviated kanji)
3. an original kanji that serves as the basis for a later kanji
4. Chinese kanji (as opposed to kokuji)

• “本字”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎^[1] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
• “本字” in Weblio Dictionary.