See also: 漢文訓読

Chinese edit

written Chinese, as opposed to other scripts; Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese to semantically match a Chinese character with etymologically unrelated vernacular morphemes and read the character thus; to employ "gloss reading"
trad. (漢文訓讀) 漢文 訓讀
simp. (汉文训读) 汉文 训读

Pronunciation edit


Noun edit

漢文訓讀

  1. (linguistics) reading Literary Chinese text in the vernacular language by literal translation (mainly practiced in Japan, where it is called kanbun kundoku)

Derived terms edit

Japanese edit

For pronunciation and definitions of 漢文訓讀 – see the following entry.
漢文訓読かんぶんくんどく
[noun] (orthography) the Japanese reading of Literary Chinese by a literal translation
(This term, 漢文訓讀, is the kyūjitai of the above term.)