I have been thinking of a character that the Japanese call $B!V$+$i!W!#(BThat
is, to use romaji, they call it "kara"/"kala". The glyph they usually use
for this character is that of FULLWIDTH TILDE, but I don't know if it is
really a tilde.
In horizontal writing, it looks like the first cycle of a sine wave- that
is, up first and then down, then up. But maybe this is not always so and
there are variations. I dunno.
Now -- and this is important -- in vertican writing, it is kind of pointed
downwards, and is NOT the same as the given horizontal glyph rotated 90
degrees. It is mirrored, I think, so it does not look like $B!V$7!W!#(B
It is used to indicate ranges of numbers and such. Like in a list in $B#5#02;(B
order, you see headings $B$"!A$*!"$+!A$3!"(Betc., sometimes.
Do not confuse KARA with the cute variant of KATAKANA-HIRAGANA PROLONGED
SOUND MARK. They are as different functionally as DIGIT ZERO and LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER O.
Should I propose it?
I could probably give you examples.
$B!!!!"*!!$8$e$&$$$C$A$c$s!!"+(B
$B!!!!!!$@$s$;$$$i$7$5$`$h$&(B
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$B$*E9$h$j$b5$7Z$K!*9%$-$J%b%N9%$-$J$@$18+$i$l$k(B MSN $B%7%g%C%T%s%0(B
http://shopping.msn.co.jp/
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