See also:

U+30FD, ヽ
KATAKANA ITERATION MARK

[U+30FC]
Katakana
[U+30FE]

Ainu

Letter

• (transliteration needed)

  1. (Sakhalin, obsolete) A former sign used to mark a long vowel
    Aashte, アシテ, 立タシメル、設立サレル.n. To be established. To be set up.

Usage notes

In modern Ainu kana, long vowels are transcribed with this symbol: . Long vowels only existed in the Sakhalin dialect.

References

  • An Ainu-English-Japanese dictionary (including a grammar of the Ainu language), 1905

Japanese

Alternative forms

Iteration mark

 

  1. (dated) An iteration mark denoting the repetition of the previous katakana.
    ホトギスhototogisu
  • (Japanese ligatures and scribal abbreviations) (しめ) (shime), 𪜈(とも) (tomo), (yori), (koto), 𬼀(して) (shite), (ます) (masu), (graphical abbreviation for ), (iteration mark), (iteration mark for hiragana), (iteration mark for katakana) (iteration mark for multiple kana),