唐宋音

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
とう
Grade: S
そう
Jinmeiyō
おん
Grade: 1
on'yomi goon

Etymology

From (とう) (, Tang) + (そう) (, Song) + (おん) (on, Sino-Japanese reading of a kanji).

Pronunciation

Noun

(とう)(そう)(おん) (tōsōonたうそうおん (tausouon)?

  1. the pronunciation of Chinese characters used in the Tang and Song dynasties of China; mainly limited to Zen vocabulary
  2. 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
    Hyponyms: 唐音 (tōon), 宋音 (sōon)

See also

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN