do you prefer apostrophe or dash for ex. kun’yomi or kun-yomi

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1. I was always taught that the dash indicates an elongated vowel sound. So I feel like it might be confusing to use it for this type of scenario (I understand that it isn’t placed after a vowel here, but still)

2. For the ん kana, all romanization systems that I’m familiar with generally describe using an apostrophe afterwards to clarify that the “n” is the ん and not the initial sound of the なにぬねの kana.

   Hyphens I’m most accustomed to seeing as a means of marking morpheme boundaries in compound words. Things like _tō-mawari_ for 遠回り, or _tabe-hōdai_ for 食べ放題.

   I don’t think I’ve ever seen hyphens used to distinguish the “n” for the ん kana from the initial “n” of the なにぬねの kana.