The two most important things to know about Japanese kanji pronunciation has onyomi and kunyomi.
Because Japanese was originally a spoken language and very different from Chinese, modern Japanese is a hybrid of classical Japanese and classical Chinese pronunciations expressed in Japanese phonemes. This is reflected in the names of the "readings" for kanji: readings that come from classical spoken Japanese are called kunyomi, and readings that come from classical Chinese are called onyomi [ From Japanese Online ]
For example, this is "sound" of kanji.
This kanji has three pronunciations.
This kanji has one Onyomi and two Kunyomi.
Onyomi is mainly used on a kanji idiom.
The meaning of the word is understood by reading the compounded kanji symbols aloud by Onyomi.
But !
The Onyomi idiom kanji has the troublesome problem.
It means that there is many "idioms of the same pronunciation."
"The troublesome problem" is that quite a lot of kanji idioms with "Same pronunciation by Onyomi" exists in Japanese.
It explains it at the next chance.
By Hararie
Tokyo Time
