くんよみ

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Japanese

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For pronunciation and definitions of くんよみ – see the following entry.
訓読み
[noun] (linguistics) kun'yomi: a reading of a kanji that is not derived from the kanji's original pronunciation borrowed from Chinese
[verb] to use the kun'yomi of a word, to read a kanji using the pronunciation of a native Japanese word
Alternative spelling
訓読
(This term, くんよみ (kun'yomi), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)