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Does a kanji with only a kun reading mean that it originated in Japan?

Jack Bosma
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    Can you be more specific in claiming certain characters have only a kun reading? (give examples). In my experience, almost of all these are characters where the on-reading is *rarely used in Japanese* rather than non-existent. – virmaior Jul 31 '18 at 15:52
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    Please specify what exactly you mean by "only a kun reading". How do you propose to decide when a kanji does not have an *on* reading? – Earthliŋ Jul 31 '18 at 16:00
  • I received my answer in the comments. – Jack Bosma Jul 31 '18 at 16:44
  • It seems that all kanji are derived from Chinese characters, and none were developed strictly in Japan. – Jack Bosma Jul 31 '18 at 16:59
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    @JACK Apparently you didn't quite understand the answer you accepted. It talks about "kanji that originated in Japan". – Earthliŋ Jul 31 '18 at 17:15
  • @Earthliŋ, Apparently even kanji that originated in Japan have their origins from China. I assumed that since some kanji only have on readings then some would only have kun readings – Jack Bosma Jul 31 '18 at 17:21
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    No, by "originated in Japan" the answer means 和製漢字 *wasei kanji* or 国字 *kokuji*, which do **not** have their origins in China. The answer also gives an example. Also see https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%92%8C%E8%A3%BD%E6%BC%A2%E5%AD%97 as well as https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/42248/1628 – Earthliŋ Jul 31 '18 at 17:26
  • Let us [continue this discussion in chat](https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/80941/discussion-between-jack-and-earthli). – Jack Bosma Jul 31 '18 at 17:30

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It appears so. However, some of those kanji that originated in Japan (called 国字{こくじ}) also have "on" readings and not just "kun". A common example is 働{はたら}く / 働{どう}

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    And there are also 国字 that **only** have _on'yomi_, like 線【せん】 "gland". – Eiríkr Útlendi Jul 31 '18 at 15:55
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    @EiríkrÚtlendi The classification of 腺 as an on'yomi is interesting, as it implies that the word represented by 腺 has etymologically Chinese origins, but I'm not too sure what this original word is. EDIT: Nevermind, the etymology is from 泉. – dROOOze Jul 31 '18 at 16:53