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What is this strange, yet familiar, symbol?

Harmonie Ace

ツ十ナスO窶敕披?佚?窶「窶コ窶佚?窶卍キ
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I'm going through my translation class assignment, and I came across a symbol that I recognize, but I can't remember what it means!

It looks like る but with a loop where the third point is (if you count the starting point as the first). I can't give more of a description than that...but hopefully someone will know what I mean.

It's kind of frustrating because I know I've come across this before.
 
Could it be this one?


If so, it is an old hiragana, which is now obsolete.
You know there are missing kana in the "wa" line.
わ ・ ・ ・ を.
ゐ is one of them, another is ゑ.
History of hiragana at Wikipedia might be interesting.
Hiragana - Wikipedia
 
AH!!!! That's it! Thank you very much!!! I wasn't sure how to look it up so I didn't even know where to start.

Hopefully I'll remember this the next time I see it.

Thank you again!
 
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