くの字点

Japanese
Kanji in this term
字 点
じ
Grade: 1		 てん
Grade: 2
goon
Alternative spelling
くの字點 (kyūjitai)

Etymology

く +‎ の (genitive/attributive particle) +‎ 字 (“character; letter”) +‎ 点 (“point; dot; mark”), literally “the mark of the character く”, which they resemble.

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) くのじ​てん [kù nó jíꜜtèǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])
  • IPA(key): [kɯ̟ᵝ no̞ d͡ʑitẽ̞ɴ]

Noun

くの字(じ)点(てん) • (ku no jiten) 

  1. (typography) either of the iteration marks 〱 and 〲, respectively used to repeat more than one 清音 (seion) and 濁音 (dakuon) in vertical text, as well as their decomposed counterparts, 〳, 〴 and 〵
    Hypernym: 踊り字
    Coordinate terms: 一の字点, くの字点, 二の字点
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