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The Japanese speaker, educated in Kanbun would punctuate this sentence with the aid of the symbol:
In the Kanbun system, special punctuation enables the reader to convert phrases presented in Chinese order (usually subject-verb-object) to Japanese order (usually subject-object-verb), and to supply missing inflectional endings to produce something approximating Classical Japanese.
Sometimes, for additional clarity, kanbun writers will add the inflectional endings to the right of the line, using phonetic symbols called katakana :
While there are still many people who can read kanbun texts, very few can actually write them.
In the nineteenth century, however, kanbun was still widely used, and it is interesting to note that some of the first European language instruction books written in Japan employ similar systems for reading English and other languages in Japanese!