|
〃
|
| Ditto mark |
|
|
|
|
|
| Punctuation |
| apostrophe |
( ’ ' ) |
| brackets |
( [ ], ( ), { }, ⟨ ⟩ ) |
| colon |
( : ) |
| comma |
( , ، 、 ) |
| dash |
( ‒, –, —, ― ) |
| ellipsis |
( …, ..., . . . ) |
| exclamation mark |
( ! ) |
| full stop/period |
( . ) |
| guillemets |
( « » ) |
| hyphen |
( ‐ ) |
| hyphen-minus |
( - ) |
| question mark |
( ? ) |
| quotation marks |
( ‘ ’, “ ”, ' ', " " ) |
| semicolon |
( ; ) |
| slash/stroke/solidus |
( /, ⁄ ) |
| Word dividers |
| interpunct |
( · ) |
| space |
( ) ( ) ( ) |
| General typography |
| ampersand |
( & ) |
| asterisk |
( * ) |
| at sign |
( @ ) |
| backslash |
( \ ) |
| bullet |
( • ) |
| caret |
( ^ ) |
| dagger |
( †, ‡ ) |
| degree |
( ° ) |
| ditto mark |
( 〃 ) |
| inverted exclamation mark |
( ¡ ) |
| inverted question mark |
( ¿ ) |
| number sign/pound/hash |
( # ) |
| numero sign |
( № ) |
| obelus |
( ÷ ) |
| ordinal indicator |
( º, ª ) |
| percent, per mil |
( %, ‰ ) |
| basis point |
( ‱ ) |
| pilcrow |
( ¶ ) |
| prime |
( ′, ″, ‴ ) |
| section sign |
( § ) |
| tilde |
( ~ ) |
| underscore/understrike |
( _ ) |
| vertical bar/broken bar/pipe |
( ¦, | ) |
| Intellectual property |
| copyright symbol |
( © ) |
| registered trademark |
( ® ) |
| service mark |
( ℠ ) |
| sound recording copyright |
( ℗ ) |
| trademark |
( ™ ) |
| Currency |
| currency (generic) |
( ¤ ) |
| currency (specific) |
| ( ₳ ฿ ₵ ¢ ₡ ₢ ₠ $ ₫ ৳ ₯ € ƒ ₣ ₲ ₴ ₭ ₺ ℳ ₥ ₦ ₧ ₱ ₰ £ ₹ ₨ ₪ ₸ ₮ ₩ ¥ ៛ ) |
| Uncommon typography |
| asterism |
( ⁂ ) |
| index/fist |
( ☞ ) |
| interrobang |
( ‽ ) |
| irony punctuation |
( ؟ ) |
| lozenge |
( ◊ ) |
| reference mark |
( ※ ) |
| tie |
( ⁀ ) |
| Related |
| diacritical marks |
| logic symbols |
| whitespace characters |
| non-English quotation style |
( « », „ ” ) |
| In other scripts |
| Chinese punctuation |
| Hebrew punctuation |
| Japanese punctuation |
| Korean punctuation |
|
|
|
|
|
The ditto mark (〃) is a typographic symbol indicating that the word(s) or figure(s) above it are to be repeated. For example:
- Black pens, box of twenty ..... £2.10
Blue 〃 〃 〃 〃 ..... £2.35
In Unicode, it is encoded at U+3003 〃 ditto mark (HTML: 〃), in block CJK Symbols and Punctuation. In practice, however, closing double quotation marks (”) or straight double quotation marks (") are often used instead. The abbreviation do. is also used.
The word ditto comes from the Tuscan language, where it is the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of “said”, as in the locution “the said story”. The first recorded use of ditto with this meaning in English occurs in 1625.[1] Early evidence of ditto marks can be seen on a cuneiform tablet of the Neo-Assyrian period (934 – 608 BC) where two vertical marks are used in a table of synonyms to repeat text,[2] while in China the corresponding mark is two horizontal lines (二); see iteration mark.
An advertisement from 1833. The second item on the list can be read as "Prime American Pork, in barrels", while the third is "Prime American Pork, in Half barrels".
[edit] See also
[edit] References
