Reading and meaning
- Reading
- あてじ
- Romaji
- ateji
- Meaning
- kanji used as a phonetic symbol, instead of for the meaning, phonetic-equivalent character, substitute character, ateji
- Word type
- noun
Example sentences
この地名は、古い当て字で表記されている。
This place name is written using old ateji.
明治時代には、外来語を当て字で表すこともあった。
During the Meiji era, foreign words were sometimes represented using ateji.