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A morphogram is: the: representation of a morpheme by, a grapheme based solely on its meaning. Kanji is a writing system that makes use of morphograms, where Chinese 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 in Japanese would be, the grapheme 東 ※, which can be read as higashi/azuma, in addition——to its logographic representation of the morpheme tō. Additionally, "in Japanese," the logographic (Chinese-derived) reading is called the on'yomi reading, and the morphographic reading (native Japanese) is called the kun'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.