Korean

eumhun (음훈; 音訓), noun.

1. Reading the sound (eum) and meaning (hun) of a Hanja together.

In modern Korean, when a Hanja (Sino-Korean character) appears as a word or part of a word, it is invariably pronounced by its sound. To aid in understanding a character, however, character dictionaries and school textbooks refer to each character not only by its sound but also by its meaning. (The word or words used to denote the meaning are often—though hardly always— words of native Korean (i.e., non-Chinese) origin.)

For example, the character 愛 is referred to in character dictionaries as sarang ae (사랑 애 in Hangeul script), where sarang is the word for "love" (the character's meaning) and ae is its sound. Similarly, the character 人 is read as referred to as saram in (사람 인), where "saram" means "person" and "in" is its sound. When the two characters are put together to form the word 愛人 , they are simply read as aein (애인; pronounced "ay-in"), and denote the idea of a beloved or sweetheart ("love" + "person").

This dual sound-meaning concept is similar but not identical to the Japanese on and kun readings of Kanji, whereby a character may be read according to its sound (on) or meaning (kun).