Kun'yomi
Kun Reading, Japanese Reading
noun, verbal noun
The instruction reading may not make a lot of sense, but you've heard this word before. Jump to the reading and you'll know what the meaning of this word is.
The reading is the word 読み (like 読む) and the reading you learned for 訓 combined, making くんよみ. Sounds familiar? It's that kun'yomi reading you've heard so much about.
漢字には音読みと訓読みがあります。
Kanji characters have both on reading and kun reading.
この漢字の訓読みって何だったっけ？
What was the kun'yomi of this kanji?
え、これって訓読みだったの？てっきり音読みだと思ってた。
Oh, this is a kun'yomi? I thought it was an on'yomi.