 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 [east], which can be read as "higashi" or "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.