What ﹅ means
They stress the word they sit beside. In vertical Japanese, one dot sits to the right of each stressed character; horizontal text puts them above, while Chinese standards put them below. They were already common in kanbun, classical Chinese annotated for Japanese readers, and typography studies follow their printed forms from the Meiji period onward.
A typesetting mark; it means something only next to the text it stresses.
Alone in a chat, it reads as a stray dot, not a reaction.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Do web pages type this character to show emphasis dots?
Usually not. Web pages draw emphasis dots with the CSS text-emphasis property (style "sesame"), so the separate character mostly appears when someone quotes or discusses the mark.
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How to type or find ﹅
- Also called
- kenten · bōten · goma
- Search it as
- bouten · emphasis dots
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.