noun
important point; emphasis; priority
Refers to the main point, the part that should be emphasized, or where effort/resources should be concentrated. Common in educational, business, and policy contexts.
この計画の重点はコスト削減です。
The emphasis of this plan is on cost reduction.
先
The teacher explained the key points for the exam.
noun
Technical term in Japanese orthography; refers to characters like 々, ゝ, ヽ used to repeat the preceding character. Rare outside linguistic or typographic discussions.
See also: 踊り字
「人々」の「々」は重点と呼ばれる踊り字の一種です。
The '々' in '人々' is a type of iteration mark called 重点.
noun
Rare, specialized term for the colon punctuation mark (:). In modern Japanese, コロン is far more common.
See also: コロン
古いタイプライターの説明書では、コロンを「重点」と表記することがあった。
In old typewriter manuals, the colon was sometimes written as 重点.