Wild goose spot

Japanese: 雁点 - がんてん
Wild goose spot
〘Noun〙 A string of wild geese flying one after the other. ※Wakan Roei (around 1018) Vol. 2 "Across the Jiangxia Lake, the people and smoke are far away, the lake, the water, the sky, the wild geese are far away (Tachibana Naoki) " [Bai Juyi - Evening View of the Scenery from the Jianglou, a Poem by Zhang Ji]

Karigane-ten [wild goose point]

〘Noun〙 An old name for the "re" mark, one of the return marks used in reading Chinese classics in Japanese. It indicates a single character return, and in the old days "" was used, and its shape resembled a flying wild goose, hence the name.

Source: The Selected Edition of the Japanese Language Dictionary About the Selected Edition of the Japanese Language Dictionary Information

Japanese:
〘名〙 雁が点々と連なって飛んでいくこと。※和漢朗詠（1018頃）下「江霞浦を隔てて人煙遠し、湖水天に連なりて雁点(がんてん)遙かなり〈橘直幹〉」 〔白居易‐江楼晩眺景物寄張籍詩〕

かりがね‐てん【雁点】

〘名〙 漢文訓読に用いる返り点の一つ、レ点の古称。一字返りを示すもので、古く「」を用い、形が飛ぶ雁に似ていたところからいう。

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