Example sentences for: kanbun

How can you use “kanbun” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • Actually, there is one significant exception to this rule, a written language used in Japan called kanbun .

  • Sometimes, for additional clarity, kanbun writers will add the inflectional endings to the right of the line, using phonetic symbols called katakana :

  • The Japanese speaker, educated in Kanbun would punctuate this sentence with the aid of the symbol:

  • 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!


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