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JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

訓くん読よみ

kun'yomi

native Japanese kanji reading

Example sentences

  1. 天満宮てんまんぐうは音読おんよみで、八幡宮はちまんぐうや浅間神社あさまじんじゃは音読おんよみと訓読くんよみの場合ばあいがある。

    Tenmangu uses a Chinese-derived reading, while Hachimangu and Asama Shrine may use either Chinese-derived or native Japanese readings.

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

  2. 辞書じしょでこの漢字かんじの訓読くんよみを調しらべた。

    I looked up this kanji’s native Japanese reading in a dictionary.

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  3. 先生せんせいは黒板こくばんに訓読くんよみを書かいた。

    The teacher wrote the native Japanese reading on the board.

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Kanji in 訓読

  • 訓instruction; Japanese character readingOnクン・キンKunおしえる・よむ・くんずる
  • 読readOnドク・トク・トウKunよむ

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