on'yomi in A Sentence

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    For instance, the character for east, 東, has the On'yomi tō, from Middle Chinese tung.

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    Some kanji were introduced from different parts of China at different times, and so have multiple On'yomi, and often multiple meanings.

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    Likewise, 明日("tomorrow") is jukujikun, and read neither as akari(no)hi, the kun'yomi of the characters, nor meinichi, the On'yomi of the characters,

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    Although they are not typically considered jūbako or yutō, they often contain mixtures of kun'yomi, On'yomi and nanori, such as 大助 Daisuke, 夏美 Natsumi.

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    Old Japanese scripts often stated that On'yomi readings were also created by the Japanese during their arrival and re-borrowed by the Chinese as their own.

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    The On'yomi(音読み, literally"sound(-based) reading"), the Sino-Japanese reading, is the modern descendant of the Japanese approximation of the base Chinese pronunciation of the character at the time it was introduced.

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    When it is necessary to distinguish between native Japanese kun'yomi and Chinese-derived On'yomi pronunciations, for example in kanji dictionaries, the Japanese pronunciations are written in hiragana, and the Chinese pronunciations are written in katakana.

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