What ヾ means
It repeats katakana with voicing. トヾ makes ト into voiced ド (“to” to “do”); dakuten is the Japanese voicing mark.
Japanese repetition marks predate the Nara period. After kana emerged, their marks are generally understood as shortened 〻. By 2001, they were less common as handwriting and vertical writing gave way to digital input.
Specialist, old-style orthography.
Use it for voiced katakana repetition, not as a general ditto mark.
Who writes ヾ
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Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Hiragana Iteration Mark
Unvoiced hiragana counterpart.
Hiragana Voiced Iteration Mark
Voiced hiragana counterpart.
Ideographic Iteration Mark
Japanese kanji repetition mark; it repeats a preceding kanji.
Vertical Ideographic Iteration Mark
Older Japanese repetition sign; kana marks are generally traced to it.
Alphabet
Questions people ask
1Why does ヾ 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 ヾ
- Also called
- odoriji · 一ツ点
- Search it as
- kurikaeshi · katakana repeat mark · dakuten
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
ヾCSS
\30FEJapanese IME
As of 2025, Microsoft IME, a Japanese input method, lists おなじ, どう, and くりかえし; select ヾ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ヾ
HTML hex
ヾ
CSS content
content: "\30FE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E3%83%BE
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.