Ask a Japanese Teacher! ON or KUN reading?

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[Alastair]

I'm literally tearing up. 😢 this is the best explanation I've seen.

[鄧南英]

Ah i see the onyomi is written in katakana because it was from china and the kunyomi is written in hiragana as it is from japan

[metaforically]

Every time I feel like I am getting the grasp of things ... it keeps getting more complicated ...

[therealhardrock]

So "san" is the ON reading of the word for mountain. I was confused when it sounded like Japanese characters in Monster movies and anime were calling Mt. Fuji "Mister Fuji."

[Kntrabssi]

Wow, I’ve been looking everywhere for a digestible explanation to onyumi and kunyumi and this cleared it up 100%. ありがとうございます！

[atruv]

This helped me so much. But of course... there HAD to be exception words that don't follow the rules... ugh.

[slinkyatrest]

it's fun because it's needlessly complicated o_O

[annakravtsova]

I have been studying Kanji for a pretty long time, and I am still confused (lol) whether I should literally memorize both kun and on readings along with the Kanji itself, or if I should just try to remember the kun reading along with the words that include the Kanji. Or both? It's easy when there are two readings, but when there are 15, they make my head spin :D

[HerrHeltcel]

I've had so SO SO SO much trouble wrapping my head around this and you finally made it so clear! Thank you so much for this explanation, it did what other instructors couldn't.

[TheSiberianLad]

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[cutiepiechan]

I studied japanese at university for four years, bridging college for 2 before tht and lived in Japan for a couple years. This is the first time I’ve seen such a simple, clear explanation 😭😍🤪

[ShevinLafi]

Read almost 100 articles about kun and on. But maybe im into visualization, because the video made me understand how to use these forms =) thank u, greetz from germany

[MrGalacticWarrior]

This explanation was exactly what i was looking for. Thank you.

[信ずる心]

So now we've got a rule that one single kanji reads as "kun" and more than one kanji reads as "on". But it doesn't always work. Sometimes a single kanji may also read as "on" such as 急(kyuu)(means"hurry"), and kanji in a compound word may also read as "kun" such as 弓矢(yumi-ya)(means "bow and arrow").

[Tara.Tripathi]

Thank you, you solved what was like a big problem for me .Arigatou Hiroko Sensei.

[angi]

This makes a lot of sense because I am learning Japanese, thank you!

[giovannijunior]

Love you people. this was simple, easy to understand and well put. Thank you so much.

[drioko]

This makes it so much easier!!! Thank you!!

Kun for isolate Kanji or with hiragana and katakana
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On for double, triple, etc Kanji uses!電車

[GG_Bro]

what about 生? it has 17 kun-reading and 2 on-reading

[waywardpony]

Best explanation ever. To the point, no nonsense, thank you!