おんよみ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of おんよみ – see the following entry.

[noun] (linguistics) the reading of a Japanese word written in kanji that is roughly based on the pronunciation of the kanji characters in the originating Chinese dialect at the time the word was introduced into Japanese

[verb] to use the on'yomi of a word, to read a word using the pronunciation based on the original Chinese pronunciation

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音読

(This term, おんよみ, is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)

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