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Japanese
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| 吳音 (kyūjitai)
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Etymology
Compound of 呉 (go, “the Wú region of China”) + 音 (on, “sound, pronunciation”).
呉 may be a misnomer adopted by the Heian Period kan'on supporters to suggest that goon is "dialectal" or "non-standard".
Pronunciation
Noun
呉音 • (goon)
- The pronunciation of Chinese hanzi characters used in the Wú (Japanese 吳 (Go)) and Yuè (Japanese 越 (Etsu)) regions of China.
- goon, a Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer; the first layer first brought to Japan via the Korean peninsula
- Generally regarded as the character reading brought over long ago from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (the Wú region). Found especially in Buddhist terminology and early technical terminology.
- Synonym: (obsolete, original name used until the middle of the Heian Period) 和音 (waon)
- Hypernyms: 漢字音 (kanji-on), 音読み (on'yomi)
- Coordinate terms: 和音 (waon), 漢音 (kan'on), 宋音 (sōon), 唐音 (tōon), 慣用音 (kan'yōon)
References
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK Publishing, →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
