What ㆒ means
It marks where the reading turns back.
The kanbun one-two return marks (一二点) work in sequence: read through ㆒, then return to ㆓. They guide the reading; they do not count.
Kanbun notes let Japanese readers follow Classical Chinese in Japanese order without changing the source. A broader return-mark example is cited from 788; a Buddhist manuscript copied in 762 was marked around 830. A 2013 study describes Korean Gugyeol notes as a separate aid for reading Classical Chinese in Korean and says surviving evidence does not establish that they influenced Japanese marks.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ㆒ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ㆒
- Also called
- 一点
- Search it as
- kanbun one mark · ichiten · kaeriten · kundoku · 返り点
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
㆒\3192Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.