Reference mark

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reference mark
Handwritten notice in Japanese. Note the komejirushi at the bottom of each page, preceding the footnotes.

The reference mark or reference symbol (※) is a punctuation mark used in CJK (Chinese Japanese and Korean) writing.

It is used to call attention to an important sentence or thought, like a prologue or footnote.[1] In contrast to the European asterisk, it is not used for connecting a specific place in the text directly to the footnote, but rather for notes directly before or after the passage.

Names

Its Japanese name, komejirushi (Japanese: こめじるし; 米印, pronounced [komedʑiꜜɾɯɕi], lit. rice symbol), refers to the similarity of the character to the kanji for "rice" (米).[2]

Its Korean name, chamgopyo (Korean: 참고표), literally means "reference mark". It is also informally called as danggujangpyo (당구장표; lit. billiard hall mark), as the symbol is often used to indicate the presence of pool halls, with two crossed strokes indicating two cue sticks and four dots indicating four billiard balls

Unicode

In Unicode, the symbol is available at code point U+203B "REFERENCE MARK".

References

  1. ↑ Jan M. Ziolkowski (2018). The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. p. 47. ISBN 1783744367. […] The Japanese komejirushi (“rice symbol”), so called for its similarity to the kanji for kome (“rice”) and used in Japanese writing to denote an important sentence or thought.
  2. ↑ Japanese in a Flash. 2.
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