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adama (Offline)
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11-12-2007, 03:30 PM

Sorry, dead tired and about to go to bed or I'd go into this in more detail, but 々 isn't kanji, it's technically 踊り字, one of several used to represent consonant repetition. (It's called "dou no jiten," and can be brought up in IME/Japanese language input on your computer by typing どう and space bar-ing down.) See here for more. (p/s - "noma" et. al the link I posted to mentions is slang based upon appearance of katakana, etc. (e.g., NO plus MA). Dou no jiten is the accepted scholarly name).

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