句読点

Japanese

Kanji in this term
句	読	点
く Grade: 5	とう Grade: 2	てん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative spelling
句讀點 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

From 句読(くとう) (kutō) + 点(てん) (ten).

Noun

句(く)読(とう)点(てん) • (kutōten) 

1. punctuation marks

References

• Shinmura, Izuru, editor (1998), 広辞苑 (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
• 2002, Yasuo Kitahara, 明鏡国語辞典 (Meikyō Kokugo Jiten), First Edition (in Japanese), Tokyo: Taishūkan Shoten, →ISBN