A very similar question was asked here: [Does 々 have a kanji grade
level?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/73307/does-%E3%80%85-have-
a-kanji-grade-level) but in the end the main question haven't really been
answered, and the best answer was "you don't need to know". Well, I do need to
know - in which year of education is the 々 symbol taught to Japanese kids?

I can't accept "You don't need to know" as a valid answer, sorry.
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In which year of education is the 々 symbol taught?
I think this is really something that different kids will know at different
times - because it's a symbol, not a kanji character, as the linked question
answers.

I personally was taught this symbol and its origins by asking my teacher when
I was in the middle grades of elementary school, but that's just me. I'm sure
that there are others who knew about it earlier, and others who never learned
about it from their teachers.

In fact, I remember that in my Japanese textbook, this symbol suddenly
appeared in the text and there was no explanation of its meaning or origins.

However, when it appeared in the Japanese textbook, everyone probably already
knew the meaning of the symbol somehow, and since the word itself is very
common(like 時々, 人々, 堂々, etc...) , I guess no one asked about it.
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