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JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

訓くん

kun

native Japanese kanji reading

Usually appears in 訓読み. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 漢字かんじの読よみ方かたには、音おんと訓くんの2通とおりがあるの。

    There are two ways to pronounce kanji: the Chinese-derived reading and the Japanese reading.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 鰐わににはワニという訓くんがある。

    The Chinese character for crocodiles can be read as wani in the Japanese way of reading it.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 宿題しゅくだいで、この漢字かんじの訓くんを調しらべた。

    For homework, I looked up this kanji’s native Japanese reading.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 訓

  • 訓instruction; Japanese character readingOnクン・キンKunおしえる・よむ・くんずる

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