For Japanese at least, there’s 訓読み & 音読み in which the Kunyomi reading is the native Japanese way of pronouncing the Kanji while Onyomi is the pronunciation derivative from Mandarin, i.e. 戦う for “to fight” is read as たたかう via Kunyomi while 戦争 (“war”) is read as せんそう bearing the Onyomi reading.

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