Go-on
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"Go-On" redirects here. For the Uverworld song, see Go On (Uverworld song).
Go-on (呉音, Japanese pronunciation: [ɡo.oɴ],[note 1] "sounds from the Wu region") are one of the several possible ways of reading Japanese kanji. They are based on the classical pronunciations of Chinese characters of the then-prestigious eastern Jiankang[1] (now Nanjing) dialect.
Go-on preceded the kan-on (漢音) readings. Both go-on and kan-on exhibit characteristics of Middle Chinese.