Iteration Mark - Ditto Mark

Ditto Mark

In English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Czech and Polish lists, the ditto mark (〃) represents a word repeated from the equivalent position in the line above it. For example:

• Dos kilos de lechuga
• Tres 〃 〃 tomate
• Cuatro 〃 〃 cebolla
• Un kilo 〃 zanahoria

This is common in handwriting but is not used in formal writing

The convention in Polish and Czech is to use the ditto sign together with em-dashes, for example:

• Dwa kilogramy pomidorów
• Trzy —〃— cebuli
• Cztery —〃— ziemniaków

In Swiss-German the symbol » is used. In other Germanophone countries the symbol is „.