kun'yomi

instruction / teachings

a male given name

false reading (a kanji compound whose reading does not match the readings of its component characters).

an orthographic technique utilizing Chinese characters in a way that maps character semantics to Japanese words to write Japanese words

a male given name

a male given name

using the 訓読(くんよ)み (kun'yomi, “native Japanese reading”) of kanji to represent 大和(やまと)言(こと)葉(ば) (yamato kotoba, “native Japanese words”), irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning

playful kun'yomi in the Man'yōshū

to read kanji using kun'yomi