Kan-on
Encyclopedia
is one of the sources of pronunciation of Japanese
kanji
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They were borrowed from the Tang Dynasty during the 7th to 9th century.
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
kanji
Kanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
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They were borrowed from the Tang Dynasty during the 7th to 9th century.