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A mark meaning say it again.
Also known as: Thai repetition mark
The Thai mark instructing that the preceding word or phrase be repeated.
Instructs that the preceding word or phrase be read twice.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Repetition in Thai is grammatical rather than emphatic: doubling a word can pluralise it, intensify it or soften it, so the mark writes a piece of grammar and not a stylistic flourish.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Joins the Tibetan ku ru kha, the Tamil as-above sign and the Japanese odoriji as an independent solution to writing repetition, and is the only one of them that marks a grammatical operation.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A curved glyph resembling a small figure nine or a reversed comma, set on the line after the word to be repeated, with a space before it.