(linguistics) kanji pronunciation based on Middle Chinese borrowings

to study / to learn

(linguistics) a pronunciation of a certain character or letter / (linguistics) a reading of a kanji character borrowed from Chinese

(linguistics) kana usage (orthography) / (linguistics) how letters or characters are read or pronounced ("used") / a method of writing (or "using") letters or characters

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

Alternative spelling of 字音仮名遣い (jion kanazukai): kanji pronunciation based on Middle Chinese borrowings

"Modern kana usage", the method of using kana to write Japanese that has been used after the 1946 (post-war) Japanese national language reform. Unlike its predecessor, it is almost entirely phonetic, reflecting modern language with little ambiguity.

everything