Jumping letters - Odoriji

Japanese: 躍字 - おどりじ

A symbol indicating the repetition of the same character. It is also written as dancing character, and in the past it was called jiyoji (folding character) or emphasis. Currently, 々 and 〉 are used in kanji, and ゝ and 〉 are used in kana. In China, something like ゝ and 〉 have been used since ancient times to indicate the repetition of kanji, written as 営, 多感謝, 多感謝, and 多感謝, and in Japan, it is written as ﾊ魯尓 (harobaroni) in old copies of the Nihon Shoki. This repetition symbol is also used in kana characters, with ゝ for one character, and 〉 and 〉 or various other similar symbols used for two or more characters, but after the Kamakura period it became the same as the current form.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

同じ字の繰返しであることを示す符号。踊字とも書き，古くは畳字（じようじ），重点などといった。現在，漢字では〈々〉〈〉を用い，仮名では〈ゝ〉〈〉を用いる。中国で漢字の繰返しに〈ゝ〉〈〉のようなものを古代から用い，〈営〉〈多謝〉〈多謝〉のように書いたが，日本でも《日本書紀》の古写本などに〈波魯尓〉(はろばろに)のように書かれている。この反復符号がかな文字にも用いられ，1字の場合は〈ゝ〉，2字以上の場合は〈〉〈〉またはそれと類似の形の種々の記号が用いられたが，鎌倉時代以後は現在の形と同一になった。

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