著者

石塚 晴通

出版者

東洋文庫

雑誌

東洋学報 = The Toyo Gakuho (ISSN:03869067)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.66, no.1~4, pp.33-61, 1985-03

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It is well-known that the texts of the Nihonshoki owned by the Iwasaki-Bunko, which include the use of diacritic marks are the oldest texts of this kind, but there are few papers written about the compounding marks “gōfu” 合符 used with characters. In the texts there are two types of compounding marks. One was marked between two characters in the middle and the other was marked between two characters on the left. These compounding marks were based not on Chinese but on Japanese. The ones marked in the middle indicated a single Japanese word, and the ones on the left indicated two Japanese words in the 10th century.