Meaning
音読み (おんよみ, onyomi) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “Chinese-derived kanji reading”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 10
この漢字の音読みは何ですか。
What's the Chinese-derived reading of this kanji?
「玉」という漢字の音読み。
The on-reading of the kanji character for 'tama'.
音読みで社号を読むのは仏教の影響である。
However these Sino-Japanese pronunciations for shrine names only arose due to the influence of Buddhism.
ちなみに、「掾」の日本語での音読みは「エン」である。
Incidentally, the Japanese on-reading of '掾' is 'en'.
天満宮は音読みで、八幡宮や浅間神社は音読みと訓読みの場合がある。
The name of Temman-gu Shrine is pronounced according to the Sino-Japanese reading of Japanese characters, whereas the names of Hachiman-gu Shrine and Sengen-jinja Shrine can be pronounced according to either the Sino-Japanese or native Japanese reading.
何故か家族を含む周囲の人間からは音読みの「けんと」としか呼ばれない。
For some reason, all the people around him, including his family, always call him 'Kento,' the Chinese reading of the kanji for 'Noribito.'
送り仮名がつけて記されたものがあるので、本来は音読みするものではない。
This word in Chinese characters is suffixed with Kana in some cases and this means that originally the word should not be read in the Chinese-style (On-Yomi).
また、初期には「醤油」の「油」を漢音読みして「シヤウユウ」と発音されることもあった。
In the early days, the 'yu' in 'shoyu' was sometimes read in the Kan-on reading and pronounced 'shauyuu'.
一般に、この意味で黄泉というときは、こうせん(中国語Huángquán)と音読みする。
Commonly, when Yomi is used in this sense, it is read in the on-reading as 'kosen' (Chinese Huangquan).
なお俗名の「文明」は「ふみあき」が正式名称であるが、「ぶんめい」と音読みする場合も多い。
His secular name 'Bunmei' is officially 'Fumiaki,' but it is often read as 'Bunmei' in the on-reading.