an interest in "recovering" the readings used by people of the Heian or Nara periods, and since many kanji can be read either with on- or kun-yomi pronunciations in a kanbun text, the furigana can show at least one editor's opinion of how it may have been read. The completed kundoku translation with kun'yomi reads as a well-formed Japanese sentence: Coming full circle, this annotated Japanese kanbun example back-translates: "Among Chu people, there existed one who was selling shields and spears". Unicode Kanbun were added to the Unicode Standard in June 1993 with the release of version 1.1. Alan Wood (linked below) says: "The Japanese word kanbun refers to classical Chinese writing as used in Japan. The characters in this range are used to indicate the order in which words should be read in these Chinese texts." Two Unicode kaeriten are grammatical symbols () for "linking marks" and "reverse marks". The others are organizational kanji for: numbers () "1, 2, 3, 4"; locatives () "top, middle, bottom"; Heavenly Stems () "1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th"; and levels () "heaven, earth, person". The Unicode block for kanbun is U+3190–U+319F: See also Gugyeol Idu script Interlinear gloss Wakan Konko Bun References Citations Bibliography External links Kanbun in Unicode Kanbun – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers, Alan Wood International Research Project Based on Kanbun Sources to Reconstruct a View of Japanese Culture, Nishōgakusha University Archaic Japanese language Japanese writing system Reordered languages Classical Chinese