on'yomi
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or is a way of homophonically reading kanji (Chinese characters) in Japanese. The here are the approximated , using Japanese consonants and vowels, of historical Chinese words. In contrast, the "readings" acquired from the of those same Chinese words into Japanese are known as ''kun'yomi''.
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It sits within the topics Japanese writing system terms and Kanji.
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- native label
- 音読み
- facet of
- Sino-Japanese vocabulary
- opposite of
- kun'yomi
- Stack Exchange tag
- japanese.stackexchange.com/tags/onyomi
- related category
- Category:Japanese terms spelled with kanji with on readings
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or is a way of homophonically reading kanji (Chinese characters) in Japanese. The here are the approximated , using Japanese consonants and vowels, of historical Chinese words. In contrast, the "readings" acquired from the of those same Chinese words into Japanese are known as ''kun'yomi.
A single kanji might have multiple on'yomi pronunciations, reflecting the Chinese pronunciations from different time periods or regions. On'yomi pronunciations are generally classified into go-on, kan-on, tō-on and kan'yō-on, roughly based on when they were borrowed from Chinese during the peaks of the Sinosphere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “on'yomi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.