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々
Iteration or ditto mark. In everyday text, this punctuation mark may be placed after a kanji, to signal its duplication, although it is not so popular in formal or 'dictionary' word spellings. It often appears in onomatopoetic words which sound like what they describe, such as:
wan-wan 'bow-wow,' tokei 'clock,watch'( 時々toki doki sometimes) waa-waa naku 'weep', hahaha 'loud laughter').
仝
A kanji "as above" mark.
ゝ,ヽ
Infrequent hiragana repeat mark ゝindicates repetition of the previous character e.g. はは ‘haha’ (mother) may be written はゝ, it may be shown with voiced sound markゞ
e.g. いすcan beいすゞ.ヽ and ヾ(voiced) are the katakana equivalents.
〱,〳
Also rarely used〱and〲may be seen in vertical kana. Occasionally you might come across upper half 〳vertical kana repeat mark and〴 (voiced) which are used in conjunction with〵 (lower half repeat mark).
〃
This ditto mark called ‘nonoten’, because it looks like two katakana ‘no’s, is used to repeat the portion of the line above (or to the right, when writing vertically)
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