Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Action & Movement

訓: instruction, Japanese character reading

Also: explanation, read

JLPT N210 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

言 carries the meaning · 川 gives the sound

10 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

クンkun · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 訓練するくんれんするtrain [v.t.]
  • 訓辞くんじadmonitory speech
  • 訓読みくんよみJapanese reading of kanji
  • 訓読くんどくJapanese reading of Chinese text
  • 教訓きょうくんlesson, moral (of a story)
  • 訓くんnative Japanese reading of a Chinese…
  • 訓練くんれん
  • 特訓とっくん

Also read キン, おしえる, よむ, くんずる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Words flowing from the heart and into the world! The lines radiating upward show the power of the voice as it leaves the mouth.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

Also read クン

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
訓 instruction · 言
vs侃 strong · 亻 + 口
訓 has 言 where 侃 has 亻 + 口.
In ChineseSimplified 训 · traditional, as in Japanese · xùn

Japan keeps the traditional form 訓; mainland China simplifies it to 训.

Simplified
训 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
訓 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin xùn most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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