返へん読どく点てん

noun

word-order marks for reading Chinese classics

Technical term in kanbun studies. Refers to marks (such as レ点, 一二点) used to reorder Chinese text into Japanese word order.

• 漢かん文ぶんの授じゅ業ぎょうで返へん読どく点てんの付つけ方かたを習ならった。

  In classical Chinese class, we learned how to add word-order marks.