Wakan konkoubun (和漢混交文) is a Japanese writing style which uses a mix of Japanese and Chinese writing styles that intermingles Japanese and Chinese character readings, grammar, and lexical styles. It came from the practice of using marks, added to Chinese characters, to indicated the order in which to read them for Japanese speakers. Wakan Konko Bun was often written in Hiragana and derived from Japanese reading conventions for classical Chinese. Wakan Konko Bun shows that the development of written Japanese is inseparable from the use of literary Chinese.

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