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Topic: Onyomi

	kanji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Onyomi is characterized by its use of a single syllable for each character, and its prevalence in compound words.
		However, the word for northeast is pronounced with the onyomi "tō-hoku" (東北), as it is a compound word.
		The onyomi reading is used for most compound words, as well as many place names, for example, Tokyo (東京;).
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Kanji.html (1569 words)

	Kanji -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The on'yomi (音読み) of a kanji (also called its on reading or Chinese reading) is based on the Japanese approximation of the original Chinese pronunciation of the character at the time it was introduced.
		On'yomi primarily occur in multi-kanji compound words (熟語; jukugo), many of which are the result of the adoption (along with the kanji themselves) of Chinese words for concepts that either didn't exist in Japanese or could not be articulated as elegantly using native words.
		Gikun (義訓) are readings of kanji combinations that have no direct correspondence to the characters' individual on'yomi or kun'yomi, but are instead connected by the meaning of the written and spoken phrases.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kanji.htm (3416 words)

	Knowledge King - Onyomi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Onyomi (音読み) is the Japanese approximation of the original Chinese pronunciation of a Kanji character.
		When the Japanese language was infused with the Kanji character system it also gained many Chinese words for concepts that either didn't exist or could not be articulated as elegantly as in the Chinese language.
		The onyomi reading is usually used when two kanji characters are placed side by side with the exception of surnames, place names, and uniquely Japanese concepts.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/o/on/onyomi.html (113 words)

	Introduction to Kanji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Onyomi has derived from a Chinese pronunciation at some time in China.
		As a general rule, a kanji is pronounced in its Onyomi pronunciation if it is next to other kanji (in the same word).
		There are many kanji that only have an Onyomi, but there are only a few with only a Kunyomi (such as some fish species).
	www.cet.nau.edu /~jsw26/language/japanese/kanji.html (259 words)

	Japanese name
		Japanese names are usually written in kanji, although some names use hiragana or even katakana.
		While most "traditional" names use kunyomi readings, a large number of given names and surnames use onyomi readings as well.
		The kanji 藤, meaning "wistaria," has the onyomi tou (or, with rendaku, dou).
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/japanese_name (1721 words)

	Learning Kanji through Plot Mnemonics
		The essence of my method is gathering together all the kanji that have the same Chinese reading (onyomi) and constructing a story that involves them all.
		This is especially important for Chinese readings that are short and often similar to each other (long and short syllables, interchange of consonants, etc.); using the chain method simplifies their recollection cardinally.
		There are about 300 different onyomi in Japanese, so about 300 different chains of various length are to be constructed to cover all the stock of kanji and lay an excellent foundation for further language studying.
	www.susi.ru /kanji/DY.html (701 words)

	yukihime.com » colorful metal
		This is why Japanese has “onyomi” and “kunyomi”–onyomi is the original Chinese pronunciation, while kunyomi is (usually) the Japanese word that predated the introduction of Kanji to Japan.
		Witness the character for “mountain.”; The onyomi, “san” or “sen,” is the original Chinese, while “yama” is the word that Japanese people used before they had a character to write.
		You’ll notice that most scholarly words in Japanese are built from the onyomi readings of kanji, either because the words themselves were imported from Chinese or because the words were created by scholarly types later in history (like “kagaku” for “chemistry”).
	www.yukihime.com /?p=123 (546 words)

	Onyomi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		When the Japanese language was infused with the Kanji character system it also gained many Chinese words for concepts thateither didn't exist or could not be articulated as elegantly.
		Onyomi is characterized by its use of a singlesyllable for each character, and its prevalence in compound words.
		However, the word for northeast is pronounced with the onyomi "tō-hoku"(東北), as it is a compound word.
	www.therfcc.org /onyomi-222667.html (161 words)

	Learn about Japanese Symbols and Japanese Culture! Takanori Tomita's Kanji BLOG: How To Read Kanji Symbols in Japanese?
		One is called: Kunyomi, and another one is called: Onyomi.
		Onyomi is, on the other hand, the original Chinese reading.
		As Japan has historically imported the Chinese Kanji language and gradually changed its original writting to Japanese Kanji writting system, we still apply some of rules from its origin of Chinese Kanji system.
	takanoritomita.blogspot.com /2005/05/how-to-read-kanji-symbols-in-japanese.html (432 words)

	Taming the Linguistic Tiger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The table above is far more than a curiosity; indeed, the connections among vocabulary between Chinese and Japanese are of direct practical utility in learning the vocabulary of one based on the wordstock of the other.
		onyomi will serve as a clue to only half of the word in Mandarin Chinese, but this cue alone can often provide the critical mnemonic that will enable you to retain the Chinese word even without constant practice and mental refreshing.
		onyomi in each case—still manifestly demonstrate their Chinese origin, since they look and sound quite similar to their Mandarin Chinese counterparts.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~ulm/languages/chinese_characters.htm (3356 words)

	Chain Method
		The learning of Chinese readings is amazingly facilitated - to recollect the onyomi of a character, a student has only to remember which story the character is from.
		In general, it should be determined by the student according to the goal of his/her studies.
		There are about 300 different onyomi in Japanese, so about 300 different chains of various length (from one character up to 50-100 or even more; too long chains can be split up) are to be constructed to cover all the stock of kanji.
	www.susi.ru /kanji/ChMethod.html (5432 words)

	Intermediate
		There are also scanned still images of each character painted by hand; stroke count, on- and kun-yomi for each character; and sample compound words with accompanying sounds for each compound word.
		English, Onyomi and Kunyomi readings are with the kanji.
		However, there are no English, onyomi or kunyomi readings of the kanji.
	www.geocities.com /noble28_2000/intermediate.html (337 words)

	ISO-2022 Concept Dictionary
		The two different levels are ordered according to different principles: level 1 is ordered phonetically, level 2 is ordered by radical and stroke count, with ties in radical and stroke count broken by onyomi phonetic order.
		The phonetic order applied to level 1 Kanji operates by choosing a representative "On-Kun" an onyomi (Japanized Chinese pronunciation) or kunyomi (indigenous Japanese pronunciation); ties in "On-Kun" are broken by ordering by onyomi alone followed by kunyomi alone; further ties are broken by radical order then stroke count.
		All JIS X 0208 require two bytes for their encoding; JIS X 0208 is designated and invoked in an 7-bit ISO2022 conformant string by the escape sequence ESC 2/4 4/2; in an 8-bit ISO2022 conformant string, it is designated by the same escape sequence, and invoked by Shift-In (SI).
	www.cit.gu.edu.au /~davidt/cit3611/C_UNIX/ISO-2022.htm (980 words)

	Kanji alive: Overview
		Search for 1235 kanji using a number of different criteria: textbook lesson number, onyomi, kunyomi, English kanji meaning(s), radical name, radical stroke number, radical English meaning(s) and kanji stroke number.
		Search by method of user's choice: Kanji alive gives learners the freedom to search for kanji by using a number of different criteria, such as onyomi, core English meaning, etc. It also allows learners to narrow their search through a two step process.
		Example compound words where the kanji are used are listed according to the listed order of the onyomi and kunyomi pronunciations, not according to their order of importance.
	kanjialive.lib.uchicago.edu /main.php?overview.htm (766 words)

	Collected Precedents of the S.C.A.: Japanese
		A second problem with this submission is that it mixes onyomi (Chinese) and kunyomi (Japanese) readings of the Kanji characters in a single name element.
		All of the examples except for Takebe use the ONYOMI reading and are yobina.
		SHI (notice the ONYOMI reading) only appears as a middle theme in very early feminine names ending in -me.
	www.sca.org /heraldry/laurel/precedents/CompiledNamePrecedents/Japanese.html (1690 words)

	Anime Academy Lounge - The Land of the Rising Sun?
		The first one is called Onyomi, which is the "Chinese" sound, or at least, how the Japanese think that Kanji sounds when pronounced in Chinese.
		The second one is called Kunyomi, which is the sound assigned by the Japense to refer to that Kanji.
		BUT in some ocassions, they would use a Kanji that had a similar sound to a Japanese word, changing the meaning of the Kanji completely (which is why Chinese have to learn to read Japanese and viceversa).
	www.animeacademy.com /forums/printthread.php?t=7098 (861 words)

	Tenser, said the Tensor: Borrowings and False Friends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Since the Japanese borrowed the Chinese characters for their writing system (note to self: compose rant about the Japanese writing system) and also used Chinese as the language of court and prestige for centuries, most characters have more than one pronunciation.
		Some of these pronunciations are native Japanese (kunyomi), and some based on the original Chinese pronunciation, suitably shoehorned into Japanese phonology (onyomi).
		It turns out that the onyomi of the character meaning "buy" is bai, and the onyomi of the character meaning "sell" is also bai.
	tenser.typepad.com /tenser_said_the_tensor/2004/02/borrowings_and_.html (417 words)

	THE CAVE HILL THEATRE WORKSHOP, The University of West Indies at Cave Hill
		To this end it can be said that the nature of performance and aesthetic judgment or criticism is more than democratic, since the audience are themselves part of the performance.
		The characters Onyomi, Babtunde, Ahmed and Mama T--played by Dayo Okunlola, Paul Norville, P.H. Murphy and Eleanor Price--showed how the act of storytelling becomes a means of collective resistance as well as a celebration of victories, no matter how parochial, over an oppressive and corrupt military regime, economic austerity and religious fanaticism.
		The story becomes a means of subversion and a means of re-creating their daily existence.
	www.cavehill.uwi.edu /fhe/LLL/TheatreWorkshop (1199 words)

	JISHOP kanji dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		He has worked in Japan as a research associate at the University of Aizu for nine years.
		During this time he formulated his own mnemonic method of memorizing kanji in onyomi groups.
		His article, "Learning kanji through plot mnemonics", was submitted and published in "The Daily Yomiuri", 1995.
	www.jishop-software.com /author.html (148 words)

	Kanji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		I found there are some overlap between this and other articles like onyomi and Japanese name.
		Just because the character for "hataraku" has an onyomi doesn't mean that it's been taken into China--it just means that the Japanese came up with an onyomi for it.
		The onyomi was based on the right half of the character which is Chinese.
	www.infothis.com /discuss/Kanji (3294 words)

	Aqua-Soft Forums - [release] Kanji Icon Set \| Vol.1
		Onyomi, the Chinese reading, is normally used on paired kanji.
		Because the windows Font for asiatic languages sucks, it is very pixelated, the Kanjis look way to square on windows system font.
		Kanji were tought by Chinese to Japanese, that what I understood, they can be understanded by both althoght the pronunciation is different, in nihongo the onyomi reading is the chinise one, and the other is the japanese one, althought they might have the same meaning.
	www.aqua-soft.org /board/showthread.php?t=7655&highlight=kanjis (1240 words)

	Amazon Shop - Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary - Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The best use I've found for Jack Halpern's fundamentally flawed "masterpiece", is to find obscure kunyomi readings, though it's usually my first port of call for FUKUGOu, as it gives a more accurate japanese reading for onyomi.
		For Onyomi readings and combinations I can't find (as a 4th year Univ.), I reach for my Beijing Waiguoyu Yingyuxing
		I bought this dictionary because it is compulsory for SEAS students studying Japanese.
	www.uksprite.com /store/info-4770028555.html (744 words)

	On Translating
		As a rule, though one that is often broken, when phonetic characters are used, the kanji is read with its kunyomi, [Japanese reading as opposed to onyomi or Chinese reading].
		However, it is a bit unusual to use the onyomi with the phonetic "mi".
		It may be a clever pun that simply stemmed from a publisher's error.
	home.nyc.rr.com /computertaijutsu/translation.html (2059 words)

	Writing English Names in Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		But, English names are usually translated with Onyomi reading, and if the sound of onyomi reading of a kanji character is the same as the sound of your name, its kanji character is allocated.
		"To" "Me", and whatever the kanji which has got the onyomi reading of each sound is allocated.
		But, there are also many kanji characters that has got exactly the same onyomi reading.
	www.dsfy.com /JapaneseLanguageNewsletter10.htm (608 words)

	Kodogu2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		As with the other book on Kodogu, this book is also especially challenging because of the many names of both the artisans and the subject matter.
		To make matters worse, even the Toso Kinko Jiten lists the pronunciation of only about 10% of the names, informing the reader that the pronunciation of any given name can be Kunyomi (Japanese), Onyomi (Chinese), Jubako yomi (Chinese-Japanese) or Yuto yomi (Japanese-Chinese).
		The only basic rule that I can seem to find is that whatever reading is used for the founder of a given group, this same pattern is used for his pupils and descendants.
	www.afuresearch.com /kodogu2.htm (196 words)

	Kanji - Japanese Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A kanji will often have its current pronunciation spelled out in ruby characters known as "furigana," small hiragana written above it or to its right.
		Kanji have two categories of meanings and pronunciations, referred to as "readings": on readings (音読み or onyomi) and kun readings (訓読み or kunyomi).
		On readings are derived from the original Chinese pronunciations of the character, and are typically used when a kanji is part of a compound.
	www.japan-101.com /language/language_kanji.htm (356 words)

	Hanzi Smatter 一知半解: Ant Zen
		When it is combined with other kanji can be expected to be read by its onyomi (Chinese reading), which is "gi".
		But if you were to read this compound by the onyomi of the two characters, you would get "gizen," which is a homophone for "hypocrisy" (偽善).
		But I think that's a bit of a stretch.
	www.hanzismatter.com /2005/03/ant-zen.html (467 words)

	pregunta que es kunyomi y onyomi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Tema: pregunta que es kunyomi y onyomi (Leído 74 veces)
		Una es la lectura china (おんよみーonyomi) y otra la japonesa　(くんよみーkunyomi).
		Página creada en 1.78 segundos con 21 queries.
	hablajapones.org /foro/index.php?topic=1430.0 (80 words)

	How to Read Kanji in Japanese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Onyomi is used for reading Kanji words or when kanji is
		It is to use the Chinese style reading of a character.
		Kunyomi is original Japanese reading, and Onyomi is basically
	www.dsfy.com /JapaneseLanguageNewsletter8.htm (201 words)

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