Patterns of kanji with shared elements and the same pronunciation 交 通 ( kō tsū ), traffic; 学 校 ( gak kō ), school; 効 率 ( kō ritsu ), efficiency 先 生 ( sen sei ), teacher; 惑 ...

The reading of the kanji used for the first name of Hayato Ikeda, who was prime minister in the 1960s, was not generally recognized at that time. But the reading came to be accepted widely because ...