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Kanbun

Kanbun (Japanese: 漢文, "Sinitic writing") is a Japanese term whose principal sense is writing in Literary Sinitic, including texts composed or circulated in Japan. The term has also been used more broadly for Japanized forms of Sinitic writing and for the tradition surrounding their Japanese reading. Kanbun kundoku (漢文訓読) is the conventional method of…

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Kanbun

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Avg. degree1.97
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related to history · 14
Kanbun → Burton Watson's English, Chinese, Japan's, Japanese, Kaifūsō, Nara, Nihon Shoki, Other Japanese, Silla, Some, Tenrei Banshō Meigi, The, The Japanese, Wamyō Ruijushō
related to Example · 11
Kanbun → Chinese, Confucianist, Debating, Han Feizi, Japanese, Legalist Han Fei, Shun, Standard Chinese, The, These, Yao
related to External links · 11
Kanbun → Alan WoodInternational Research Project, Based, Japanese Culture, Kanbun Sources, Nishōgakusha University, Reconstruct, Test, Unicode, UnicodeKanbun, View, Web
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Kanbun → Chinese, For, Japanese, Literary Chinese, One, Sino-Japanese, The Japanese, These, Wa, Wabun
related to Unicode · 7
Kanbun → Heavenly Stems, June, The, The Kanbun, The Unicode, Two Unicode, Unicode Standard

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japanese chinese readings literary writing reading sinitic used order texts japan kun'yomi text characters on'yomi written english words one word

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gugyeol have historicalinstance ofwhile modern Korean normally reads such texts with Sino-Korean pronunciations even though glossing traditions0.80text
modern successors.In the Japanese kanbun reading traditioninstance ofwhile modern Korean normally reads such texts with Sino-Korean pronunciations even though glossing traditions0.80text
punctuationinstance ofwhile modern Korean normally reads such texts with Sino-Korean pronunciations even though glossing traditions0.80text
reading marks guide the analysis of a Sinitic textinstance ofwhile modern Korean normally reads such texts with Sino-Korean pronunciations even though glossing traditions0.80text
its rendering into a conventional Classical Japanese registerinstance ofwhile modern Korean normally reads such texts with Sino-Korean pronunciations even though glossing traditions0.80text
grammar particles that appear after the wordsinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
phrases to which they apply.Four major problems faced when transforming kanbun are the word orderinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
parsing which Chinese characters should be read togetherinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
deciding how to pronounce the charactersinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
and finding suitable equivalents for Chinese function words.Nishogakusha University maintains a public Kanbun Databaseinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
an international research programme based on Japanese kanbun sourcesinstance ofincluding postpositions0.80text
reteninstance ofreturn marks0.80text

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