をことてん

Related words

• 返かえり点てん

  返り点 are marks that indicate the order in which characters should be read, while ヲコト点 specifically indicate grammatical endings and particles.

• 訓くん点てん

  訓点 is a broader term for all marks added to Chinese texts to aid Japanese reading; ヲコト点 is one type of 訓点.

Written forms

• ヲコト点てん

  Standard katakana spelling; usually written in kana.

• 乎古止点
  • をことてん

    Kanji spelling using 乎古止; also readable as おことてん.

  • おことてん

    rarely-used kana form
• 乎己止点
  rarely-used kanji form
  • おことてん

    rarely-used kana form

    Rare kanji spelling; the reading おことてん is itself rare.

  • をことてん
• おことてん
  rarely-used kana form

Etymology

Named for the marks indicating Japanese function words such as ヲ and コト that were added around Chinese characters to guide their Japanese reading.