Where does “百姓読み” come from?

百姓読み (Japanese) comes from Japanese 読み, from Japanese 読む — to read; to count; to infer; to speculate.

百姓読み (Japanese): misreading a kanji by reading it by its phonetic...

Definitions

  1. misreading a kanji by reading it by its phonetic...

Ancestry of “百姓読み”, step by step

百姓読み traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 読み

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese読みreading; speculation
2Japanese読むto read; to count; to infer; to speculate

via Japanese 百姓

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese百姓a farmer; a peasant; the peasantry in general;...
2Middle Chinese百姓—
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