Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "In modern Japanese, ateji (当て字, 宛字 or あてじ, \"called upon characters\") principally refer to kanji used phonetically to represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters. This is similar to man'yōgana in Old Japanese. Conversely ateji also refers to kanji used semantically without regard to the readings.For example, the word sushi is often written with the ateji 寿司."@en }
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- Ateji comment "In modern Japanese, ateji (当て字, 宛字 or あてじ, \"called upon characters\") principally refer to kanji used phonetically to represent native or borrowed words with less regard to the underlying meaning of the characters. This is similar to man'yōgana in Old Japanese. Conversely ateji also refers to kanji used semantically without regard to the readings.For example, the word sushi is often written with the ateji 寿司.".