Kanji sound

Japanese: 漢字音 - かんじおん

Originally the Chinese phonetic forms of kanji, it generally refers to the pronunciation of Chinese words that entered Japanese as loanwords, based on the original sounds, but fixed in Japan for individual kanji. It is also called "character sounds" or "on." Kanji sounds were transmitted and fixed in Annam (Vietnam) and Korea as well as Japan, so they are more precisely called "Annam kanji sounds" and "Korean kanji sounds," as opposed to "Japanese kanji sounds." The period when they were borrowed into Japan and the differences in dialects within Chinese are reflected in the Go-on, Kan-on, and Tang-on sounds. Kanji sounds, including those in Annam and Korea, are valuable resources for understanding not only the phonological history of Chinese, but also the phonological history of each language.

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Japanese:

漢字の中国語の音形を元来さすが，一般に日本語に借用語として入った漢語の読み方として，原音に基づきながら日本で個々の漢字に固定した音形をいう。「字音」「音」ともいう。漢字音は日本以外にも安南 (ベトナム) や朝鮮に伝わり固定しているので，詳しくは「安南漢字音」「朝鮮漢字音」に対し，「日本漢字音」という。日本に借用された時代，および中国語内の方言の差が呉音，漢音，唐音，となって反映している。安南，朝鮮の場合も含め，漢字音は中国語音韻史ばかりでなく，それぞれの言語の音韻史を知るうえでの貴重な資料となっている。

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