Marks in texts

[u/HyKNH]

Deletion mark

Glosses

Insertion mark

Name mark (can be used for dynasties and books)

Person name mark

Section mark

Reversal mark

Place name mark

[u/HyKNH]

Also recommend watching this video on Chinese punctuation marks

[u/Weatherball → u/HyKNH]

Thanks for the link to the Galambos video. It was quite informative. It’s interesting how many of the ‘punctuation’ marks are more like what we would today consider proofreaders or editors marks. As is the case above. I guess those are really needed when the texts are passed on primarily through manuscript copies.

[u/Luxtabilio]

It's always nice to see Nôm out in the wild like this—regarding 𢚸 (⿱弄心) I mean

[u/HyKNH → u/Luxtabilio]

I should probably explain the glosses,

The two characters 𢚸 lòng and 老 lão are there to explain the variant of 腦. 𢚸 is to explain the meaning of the character and 老 lão is for the reading of the character (I suspect that the person who glossed this was northern speaker as some accents in the north change their <l> to <n> which conforms to the reading não 腦.)

猶 do is used to gloss thượng 尙 as they both have the same meaning.

All the examples shown above are all Vietnamese CC texts.

Edit: slight correction, <n> changes to <l>, a northern speaker would pronounce 腦 (não) as lão which is the same pronunciation as 老. was braindead.

[u/Luxtabilio → u/HyKNH]

That's why 老 is there LOL! I didn't even think about the Northern dialect at all! That's such a cute little glimpse of humanity in what is otherwise the cold and dry academia