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I was glancing at some old manuscripts from the Heian period (左経記 pg. 10) when I saw the following: 左経記 pg. 10

I know that typically 々 means to repeat the previous kanji, but what does it mean when its following a 、? Also, is there a reason there are so many of them in a row like in 々々々應召?

Ringil
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    Wild guess, the two in a row stand for 巳及, and the three in row stand for 令召右. – 永劫回帰 Mar 13 '19 at 23:48
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    This is not really Classical Japanese, it's Kanbun（漢文）, which is really just Classical Chinese（文言文） – sazarando Mar 14 '19 at 00:01
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    The「、」is just a generic pause mark - notice how there's no「。」in the entire book, which means「、」would be rendered as either「、」or「。」in a more modern orthography. Also @sazarando JSE doesn't seem to have a tag for `kanbun` hmm... – dROOOze Mar 14 '19 at 00:07
  • The forward（part of the 標題 section）is in Classical Japanese though... – sazarando Mar 14 '19 at 00:20
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    Making a new tag for [tag:kanbun] makes sense. I wouldn't say kanbun is "just" Classical Chinese, though. –  Mar 14 '19 at 00:38
  • @Ringil Are you doing research about 天皇の譲位？ – sazarando Mar 14 '19 at 00:48
  • @snailboat Yes, sorry about that. I should have said "which is a form of" Classical Chinese. – sazarando Mar 14 '19 at 00:50
  • @sazarando I'm not sure this is what would typically called Classical Chinese... Also, no, I'm not researching anything specifically. I just happened upon this thing and couldn't really figure it out despite knowing a bit of Classical Chinese. But while doing that I noticed many weird things about the punctuation. – Ringil Mar 14 '19 at 01:11
  • I suppose I should have just created the tag kanbun instead of using classical Japanese, which I used because of the time period. – Ringil Mar 14 '19 at 01:12

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「々」is called「同{どう}の字{じ}点{てん}」it is used to repeat 1 previous character.

人人　=　人々

When there are multiple 同の字点 it means to repeat 'n' previous characters.

  • 已及深更、深更後... =

  • 已及深更、々々後...

&

  • 令召右大辨、右大辨應召 =
  • 令召右大辨、々々々應召
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