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{{Redirect|Go-On|the Uverworld song|Go-On (song)}}
{{nihongo|'''''Go-on'''''|呉音||"sound from the Wu region"}} are one of the several possible ways of reading [[Japanese language|Japanese]] [[kanji]]. They are based on the classical pronunciations of [[Chinese characters]] of the then-[[Prestige (sociolinguistics)|prestigious]] eastern [[Jiankang]]<ref name="Pulleyblank">{{cite book|author=Edwin G Pulleyblank|title=Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation: In Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=qWGIxP1R4P4C&pg=PA487|date=1991|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-4467-3|pages=487–}}</ref> (now [[Nanjing]]) dialect.
It preceded the {{nihongo|''[[kan-on]]''|漢音}} readings. Both ''go-on'' and ''kan-on'' exhibit characteristics of [[Middle Chinese]].
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