句点

• 読み: くてん
• ローマ字: kuten
• 漢字の分解: 句 (ku) — phrase, sentence, clause; 点 (ten) — dot, point, mark
• 発音: /kɯ.teɴ/

意味

Full stop; period. The punctuation mark used to end a sentence in Japanese writing.

A noun referring to the Japanese full stop character, which appears as a small circle rather than a dot. Distinguished from 読点 (touten, comma). Together they form 句読点 (kutouten, punctuation marks). Important in Japanese language study as punctuation rules differ from English — for example, Japanese full stops are not used after titles or headings. Commonly encountered in language and writing instruction.

例文

1. 文の終わりには必ず句点を打ってください。
2. 句点と読点の使い方を正しく覚えよう。
3. この文章は句点が少なくて読みにくい。

使い方ガイド

場面: writing, grammar, education, publishing

トーン: instructional

起源と歴史

From Sino-Japanese: 句 (ku, phrase/sentence) + 点 (ten, dot/point). Literally 'sentence point' — the mark that indicates the end of a sentence.

文化的背景

時代: Modern

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal