How to pronounce the Japanese connecting word 々

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As far as I know, this is used in Japanese to take the place of a second same character. “People” is usually written 人々, using 人 with the mark 々 preceeding it, rather than 人人, using the same symbol twice. I believe 々is called an ‘iteration mark’.

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