dotstokyo or ・・・・・・・・・ was a Japanese idol group active from 2016 to 2019.

Name and members

three members of dotstokyo There is no official pronunciation of the name — which consists of nine

interpunct An interpunct , also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot and centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script. (Word-separating spaces did no ...

s originally representing the nine founding members, although the actual number of members varied over the history of the group and ten performers have been in the group in total, albeit not at the same time — but the group has referred to themselves in interviews and online variously as dots, dotstokyo, dotsnine, tenten (a colloquial term for

kana The term may refer to a number of syllabaries used to write Japanese phonological units, morae. Such syllabaries include (1) the original kana, or , which were Chinese characters (kanji) used phonetically to transcribe Japanese, the most pr ...

voicing marks which are dot-shaped), tenkyu (indicating that there are nine dots but also a pun off " thank you"), and so on.

Discography

Singles

Split single

References

External links