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訓讀
简 训读 · 繁 訓讀Mandarin · pinyin xùn dú
Meanings
- a reading of a written Chinese word derived from a synonym (typically, a vernacular synonym) (e.g. in Mandarin, 投子 tóu zi may be pronounced as its synonym 色子 shǎi zi, and in Wu dialects, 二 is pronounced as its synonym 兩 "liahn")
- to pronounce a word using such a reading
- (Japanese linguistics) kun-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from a native Japanese word that matches its meaning rather than from the pronunciation of the character in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: A kun-reading of a character is distinguished from its on-reading(s) 音讀 yīn dú. For example, 山 has a kun-reading "yama" and an on-reading "san".)
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4–2 · xun4 du2
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
fan3 duk6
Cantonese word readings for 訓讀. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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verb
- to employ "gloss reading" or "semantic reading": to semantically match a Chinese character with etymologically unrelated vernacular (Chinese lectal; or native Japanese or Korean) morphemes and read the character thus
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