皆さん、こんにちは！
Now, I've been reading 竹取物語 and have come across (another) set of symbols that I've yet to understand. Given the following sentence.
かくて翁やう／＼豐になり行く。
What does the sudden 「／＼」 mean?
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1Could it possibly be the vertical iteration mark? See here. By the definition in the wiki, I believe this sentence would then mean かくて翁やうやう豐になり行く。My Japanese is unfortunately too limited to parse this sentence though.– Enrico BorbaCommented Dec 30, 2016 at 20:41
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See this article about iteration marks in Japanese:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iteration_mark#Japanese– kandymanCommented May 19, 2018 at 12:08
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This is supposed to be an iteration mark.
This type of iteration mark is usually only used in vertical writing (the traditional layout for Japanese writing). It looks like a big く but is twice as tall.
It also exists in Unicode, so I can try to produce it here, although it may not render nicely:
や
う
〱
(Wikipedia does a better job and has more examples.)
The characters ／＼ are often (ab)used to represent the vertical iteration mark in horizontal writing.
So,
やう／＼ = やうやう = ようよう = 漸う
answered Dec 30, 2016 at 21:13
