漢語

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 漢語 (かんご) is the Sino-Japanese stratum of Japanese vocabulary, generally based on Chinese-derived readings.
• Basic usage: A passage with difficult Sino-Japanese terms is hard to read; a word is classified by origin rather than as native vocabulary.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Vocabulary affecting readability and classification by lexical origin
  • 難しい漢語 characterizes terms in a passage, while 漢語に分類される assigns a lexical category. Contrasting 和語 refers to native Japanese vocabulary.