tō-on
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- Subclass of
- on'yomi
- Named after
- Tang dynasty
- Follows
- kan-on
- Based on
- Hangzhou dialect
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- related category
- Category:Japanese terms spelled with kanji with tōon readings
- native label
- 唐音
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thumb|The lyrics of a song in the book, (Gekkin Gakufu; 1877) annotated in tō-on pronunciation
are Japanese kanji readings imported from China by Zen monks and merchants during and after the Song dynasty, as a form of . As with kan-on and go-on, the "tō" in "tō-on" does not denote the Tang dynasty but is a term meaning China itself.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “tō-on” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.