Amorphogram is the representation of amorpheme by agrapheme based solely on its meaning.Kanji is awriting system that makes use of morphograms, whereChinese characters were borrowed to represent native morphemes because of their meanings. Thus, a single character can represent a variety of morphemes which originally all had the same meaning. An example of this inJapanese would be the grapheme 東 [east], which can be read ashigashi orazuma, in addition to itslogographic representation of the morphemetō. Additionally, in Japanese, the logographic (Chinese-derived) reading is called theon'yomi reading, and the morphographic reading (native Japanese) is called thekun'yomi reading.

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• Smith, J.S. (1996). Japanese Writing. In P.T. Daniels & W. Bright (Eds.),The World’s Writing Systems (pp. 209–217). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, Inc.

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