ぼうてん

傍点
旁点
marks or dots used to emphasize text passage
marks to facilitate reading of kanbun

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ぼうてん【傍点】

dots [marks] placed alongside a word (in script written from top to bottom) [above or below a word (in script written from left to right)] to indicate stress [draw attention, indicate pronunciation, signal word order]

・傍点を打って強調する emphasize 《a word》 by putting dots alongside [above] it <▲> 英語には傍点はないのでむしろ by 以下は言わないほうが自然.