See also: たいようじ

Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of だいようじ – see the following entry.
代用字
[noun] a Chinese character substituted for the original character used in a written expression, usually replacing a complex character with a simpler one
[noun] in particular, a replacement of a Chinese character not included in the Jōyō kanji list with a Jōyō character that has the same reading
(This term, だいようじ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)