Where does “訓読み” come from?

訓読み (Japanese) comes from Japanese 読み, from Japanese 読む — to read; to count; to infer; to speculate.

訓読み (Japanese): "kun'yomi": a reading of a kanji that is not...

Definitions

  1. "kun'yomi": a reading of a kanji that is not...

Ancestry of “訓読み”, step by step

訓読み traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 読み

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese読みreading; speculation
2Japanese読むto read; to count; to infer; to speculate

via Japanese 訓

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese訓kun'yomi
2Middle Chinese訓—

Words derived from “訓読み”

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