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A character standing for the one before it.
Also known as: Chinese repetition mark
The Chinese mark repeating the preceding character, used in handwriting and in older printing.
Stands for a repetition of the character immediately preceding it.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
Is largely confined to handwriting and to older texts in Chinese, where Japanese kept a printed form of the same device in ordinary use; the divergence is one of the clearer cases of two writing traditions taking one inherited mark in different directions.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A small looping stroke standing in the position a full character would occupy, or a pair of short marks written one above the other.
The Japanese descendant of the same device.