斷句

断句
duànjù
  1. to pause at appropriate points in reading aloud unpunctuated writing
  2. to punctuate

CEDICT

  1. to pause at appropriate points when reading aloud Classical Chinese
  2. to punctuate Classical Chinese text

Wiktionary

誦讀古書時根據文義做停頓，或同時在書上按停頓處加圈點，稱為「斷句」。

重編國語辭典

Entry Composition

1 斷 duàn
  1. to break
  2. to snap
  3. to cut off
  4. to give up or abstain from sth
  5. to judge
  6. (usu. used in the negative) absolutely
  7. definitely
  8. decidedly
2 句 jù
  1. sentence
  2. clause
  3. phrase
  4. classifier for phrases or lines of verse

Related entries

圈點 quāndiǎn
  1. to mark a text with dots and circles
  2. to punctuate
標點 biāodiǎn
  1. punctuation
  2. a punctuation mark
  3. to punctuate

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