I have been thinking of a character that the Japanese call 「から」。That 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 「し」。 It is used to indicate ranges of numbers and such. Like in a list in ５０音 order, you see headings あ〜お、か〜こ、etc., 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. → じゅういっちゃん ← だんせいらしさむよう _________________________________________________________________ お店よりも気軽に！好きなモノ好きなだけ見られる MSN ショッピング http://shopping.msn.co.jp/
