点々: 6 Terms and Phrases

• 点々
• here and there
• little by little
• sporadically
• scattered in drops
• dot
• spot

• 知恩院や京都御所御苑を点々とする
• The school facilities were moved to Chion-in Temple and then to various other places including Kyoto Imperial Palace.

• 池に落ち葉が点々と浮かんでいた。
• The pond was dotted with fallen leaves.

• この高原の頂上には、点々とまばらにさまざまな高さの松の木が生えていた。
• The top of the plateau was dotted thickly with pine-trees of varying height.

• 表記について死ぬほど厳密でありたいなら、正しくは二番目の o の上に点々がつく。
• If one is being excruciatingly correct about one's orthography, the term is properly spelled with a diaeresis over the second `o' to mark it as a separate vowel.

• 週末などは深夜に伊吹山を見ると、登山道を行く登山者の懐中電灯の列が点々と見られることがある。
• On weekends, when you look at Mt. Ibuki in the middle of the night, you can see a line of flashlights climbers on the trail have.