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Esimerkit

• The kanji pronunciation first brought to Japan via the Korean peninsula. This category was called waon (和音) until the middle of the Heian Period, after which it was also called goon. Generally regarded as the character reading brought over long ago from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (the Wú region). Contrast with kan'on (漢音), sōon (宋音), and tōon (唐音).