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The {{tp|[[sitelen pona]]}} glyph for {{tp|kipisi}} ({{UCSUR char|{{codepoint|kipisi}}}}) is derived from the {{w|division signobelus}} (÷), used as a {{w|division sign}} in {{w|Anglophone}} countries. It was designed by {{tok|[[jan Same]]}}, designer of the {{tp|[[linja pona]]}} font, in October 2016, closely resembling the mathematical sign.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?t=2616|title={{tok|Sitelen pona}} glyphs for new and apocryphal words|website=Toki Pona Forums|author={{tok|jan Same}}|date=2016-10-11|access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref> It was later changed and the horizontal line being rotated to thea side, similarly to the {{w|percent sign}} (%),diagonal to avoid confusion with {{tp|[[lon]]}} ({{sp|lon}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://forums.tokipona.org/viewtopic.php?p=15268#p15268|title=Re: {{tok|Sitelen pona}} glyphs for new and apocryphal words|website=Toki Pona Forums|author={{tok|jan Same}}|date=2016-10-16|access-date=2023-11-23}}</ref> Thereafter, it looks similar to the {{w|percent sign}} (%), and is a {{w|homoglyph}} of a form of the rarer {{w|commercial minus sign}} (⁒).<ref group="lower-alpha">Funnily, that symbol is also derived from the obelus, another variant of which (⸓) lacks the lower dot and so is {{tp|lon}}-shaped.</ref> This version was included in version 1.0 of {{tp|linja pona}}.

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