おんよみ

Japanese

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

【音読み】 [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 Alternative spelling 音読

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