漢音

See also: 汉音

Chinese

		Chinese; name of a dynasty; man	sound; noise; news
trad. (漢音)		漢	音
simp. (汉音)		汉	音

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hànyīn

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄢˋ ㄧㄣ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hon³ jam¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: hànyīn
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄢˋ ㄧㄣ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: hànyin
    • Wade–Giles: han⁴-yin¹
    • Yale: hàn-yīn
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: hannin
    • Palladius: ханьинь (xanʹinʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /xän⁵¹ in⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hon³ jam¹
    • Yale: hon yām
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hon³ jam¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: hon³ yem¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hɔːn³³ jɐm⁵⁵/

Noun

漢音

1. the kan'on reading of Chinese characters (kanji) in Japanese, descended from the Middle Chinese pronunciation from the late Tang Dynasty through the early Song Dynasty in Chinese history

See also

• 吳音／吴音 (wúyīn)
• 宋音 (sòngyīn)
• 唐音 (tángyīn)

Japanese

Examples
発(はつ)明(めい) (hatsumei): invention

Kanji in this term
漢	音
かん Grade: 3	おん Grade: 1
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
漢音 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

Probably composed in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements as a compound of 漢 (kan, “Han Chinese”) +‎ 音 (on, “sound”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) か​んおん [káꜜn'òǹ] (Atamadaka – [1])
• (Tokyo) かんおん [kàn'óń] (Heiban – [0])
• IPA^(key): [kã̠ɰ̃õ̞ɴ]

Noun

漢(かん)音(おん) • (kan'on) 

1. Kan'on, a Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer; based mainly on the Chinese pronunciation in use in the areas around Chang'an (around modern-day Xi'an) and Henan, as imported into Japanese in the Nara period and the early Heian period in Japanese history, and roughly from the late Tang Dynasty through the early Song Dynasty in Chinese history. The predominant layer used in Japanese today, as opposed to the other layers which are associated with restricted sets of words (Buddhism, etc.).

   Hypernyms: 漢字音 (kanji-on), 音読み (on'yomi)

   Coordinate terms: 呉音 (goon), 漢音 (kan'on), 宋音 (sōon), 唐音 (tōon), 慣用音 (kan'yōon)