訓くん点てん

noun

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.

• 漢かん文ぶんに訓くん点てんを施ほどこして読よむ。

  Read classical Chinese by adding guiding marks.

• この漢かん籍せきには古ふるい訓くん点てんが付ついている。

  This Chinese classic has old guiding marks attached.