借音

しゃくおんshakuon

noun

  1. using the Chinese-reading of kanji to represent native Japanese words (irrespective of the kanji's actual meaning)

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Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences