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| For pronunciation and definitions of おんよみ – see the following entry.
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| 【音読み】
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- [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 lect 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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| (This term, おんよみ (on'yomi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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