U+319F "㆟" Ideographic Annotation Man Mark Unicode Character

U+319F "㆟" Ideographic Annotation Man Mark is a CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographic symbol used specifically within the context of kanbun, the Japanese system for annotating classical Chinese texts. It represents the character for "man" or "person" (人) and was historically employed as a repetition or annotation mark, often indicating that a preceding character should be read in a particular grammatical or sequential way to aid in Japanese reading order. This character belongs to the Kanbun block of Unicode, which contains marks designed to reorder Chinese sentences into Japanese syntax when written alongside the original text. Its usage is largely historical and specialized, found in older printed materials and scholarly works rather than in modern everyday writing.