noun
Musical term for a combination of three or more notes sounded together.
ギターで和音を弾く。
I play chords on the guitar.
noun
customary on-reading
In Japanese kanji studies, a reading that became established through usage rather than being directly derived from Chinese. Contrasts with 呉音 and 漢音.
See also: 慣用音
「茶」の「チャ」は和音の例です。
The reading 'cha' for 茶 is an example of a customary on-reading.
noun
Wu reading
Archaic Heian-period term for the Wu reading of a kanji, as opposed to the Han reading. Now replaced by 呉音.
平安時代には、和音は呉音を指す言葉として使われた。
In the Heian period, 和音 was used to refer to the Wu reading.
慣用音 is the customary on-reading, synonymous with the second sense of 和音.
Compound of 和 (wa, 'Japanese') and 音 (on, 'sound'). The musical sense is a modern coinage; the kanji-reading senses are older, with the archaic Wu-reading sense dating to the Heian period.