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An ateji (当 て 字) is an expression composed of several kanjis, used phonetically like syllabaries, without paying very close attention to the meaning of these kanjis, for example in the word kurabu (倶 楽 部, club).
There are many examples of this system in literature (especially in the Meiji period), in manga, and even in karaoke songs, which give several levels of understanding of a text, as long as the reading desired is indicated with furigana: the phonetic reading, and the semantic content of each character, these two can even sometimes be completely opposite ... code
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