呉音

Etymology
Compound of.

呉 may be a misnomer adopted by the kan'on supporters to suggest that goon is "dialectal" or "non-standard".

Noun

 * 1) The pronunciation of Chinese hanzi characters used in the Wú (🇨🇬) and Yuè (🇨🇬) regions of China.
 * 2) goon, a Sino-Japanese kanji pronunciation layer; the first layer first brought to Japan via the Korean peninsula
 * Generally regarded as the character reading brought over long ago from the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (the Wú region). Found especially in Buddhist terminology and early technical terminology.