とうそうおん

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Japanese

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唐宋音
the pronunciation of Chinese characters used in the Tang and Song dynasties of China; mainly limited to Zen vocabulary
a category of 音読み (on'yomi, Japanese approximation of the original Chinese pronunciation), kanji pronunciation first brought to Japan by Zen monks during the Kamakura Period, corresponding to the late Song dynasty in China
(This term, とうそうおん (tōsōon), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)