guiding marks for rendering classical Chinese into Japanese
Technical term in Japanese philology. Refers to diacritical marks and symbols (such as kaeriten and okurigana) added to classical Chinese texts to indicate Japanese reading order and grammatical elements.
Read classical Chinese by adding guiding marks.
この漢籍には古い訓点が付いている。
This Chinese classic has old guiding marks attached.
Compound of 訓 (kun, 'Japanese reading' or 'interpretation') and 点 (ten, 'mark' or 'point'). The term refers to marks used to annotate classical Chinese texts for Japanese readers.