くんよみ

Japanese

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.)