A double bar line with two dots, marking a section to be played again.
Also known as: Repeat bars, Two dots and lines music, Colon before a bar line
Two dots against a double bar mean go back and play the section again. The dots face inward towards the music being repeated, which is how a reader tells the opening sign from the closing one.
Marks the end of a section that is to be played a second time from the matching opening sign, or from the beginning if there is none.
Contexts: Music
Faces its dots inward toward the repeated music, which is the only thing distinguishing an opening repeat from a closing one.
Contexts: Music
Is combined with numbered brackets where the ending differs between passes, so the repeated material is written once and the divergence only once each.
Contexts: Music
Is encoded as U+1D106 MUSICAL SYMBOL LEFT REPEAT SIGN.
Contexts: Music
A thin and a thick vertical line side by side spanning the staff, with two solid dots stacked vertically in the spaces beside them.