revision of a passage; textual emendation
Literary and technical term for revising or correcting a written passage, especially in classical or scholarly contexts. Rare in everyday language.
The work of revising the text of a classical work is difficult even for specialists.
From Chinese 刪定 (shāndìng), meaning to revise and finalize a text. The exact historical borrowing into Japanese is uncertain, but it is a Sino-Japanese compound used in literary and academic contexts.