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{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Puctuation in Japanese and Chinese are full-width'''
!
!
!Latin, Cyrillic
!Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew
!Arabic
!Devanagari
!Korean
!Korean
!Arabic
!Japanese
!Japanese
!Chinese
!Chinese
|-
|-
|comma
|comma
|''','''
|'''،'''
|''','''
|''','''
|''',''' horizontal
|''',''' horizontal
'''、'''vertical
'''、'''vertical
|'''،'''
|'''、'''
|'''、'''
|'''，'''
|'''，'''
|-
|-
|period
|period
| colspan="3" |'''.'''
|'''.'''
| colspan="2" |'''。'''
|'''.'''
|।
|'''.'''
|'''。'''
|'''。'''
|-
|-
|question mark
|question mark
| colspan="2" |'''?'''
|'''?'''
|'''؟'''
|'''؟'''
| colspan="2" |'''？'''
|'''?'''
|'''?'''
|'''？'''
|'''？'''
|-
|-
|exclamation mark
|exclamation mark
| colspan="3" |'''!'''
|'''!'''
| colspan="2" |'''！'''
|'''!'''
|'''!'''
|'''!'''
|'''！'''
|'''！'''
|-
|-
|parentheses
|parentheses
| colspan="3" |'''( )'''
|'''( )'''
| colspan="2" |'''（）'''
|'''( )'''
|'''( )'''
|'''( )'''
|'''（）'''
|'''（）'''
|-
|-
|colon
|colon
| colspan="3" |''':'''
|''':'''
| colspan="2" |'''：'''
|''':'''
|''':'''
|''':'''
|'''：'''
|'''：'''
|-
|-
|semicolon
|semicolon
| colspan="2" |''';'''
|''';'''
|'''؛'''
|'''؛'''
| colspan="2" |'''；'''
|''';'''
|''';'''
|'''；'''
|'''；'''
|-
|-
|ellipsis
|ellipsis
| colspan="3" |…
|…
| colspan="2" |……
...
|…
...
|…
...
|…
...
|……
|……
|}
|}


Revision as of 17:40, 10 June 2017

Punctuation-in-many-languages2.jpg

Marks

Most Common

Puctuation in Japanese and Chinese are full-width
Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew Arabic Devanagari Korean Japanese Chinese
comma , ، , , horizontal

、vertical

、 ，
period . . । . 。 。
question mark ? ؟ ? ? ？ ？
exclamation mark ! ! ! ! ！ ！
parentheses ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) （） （）
colon : : : : ： ：
semicolon ; ؛ ; ; ； ；
ellipsis …

...

…

...

…

...

…

...

…… ……

Quotation marks

Some have alternatives
Primary Secondary Spacing
English, United Kindom

Scottish Gaelic

Welsh

‘…’ “…” English: 1–2 pt

Welsh: 1–2 pt

Afrikaans

Chinese, China

English, United States

English, Canada

Esperanto

Filipino

Hindi

Indonesian

Irish

Interlingua

Maltese

Portuguese, Brazil

Thai

“…” ‘…’ English: 1–2 pt

Chinese: fullwidth

Irish: 1–2 pt

Lao

Vietnamese

“…”
Finnish

Swedish

”…” ’…’
Bosnian ”…”

„…”

’…’
Dutch

Hebrew

„…” ‚…’
Serbian „…” ’…’
Croatian „…” ‘…’
Polish „…” «…»

»…«

Romanian „…” «…» none
Hungarian „…” »…«
Czech

German

Icelandic

Slovak

Slovene

Sorbian

„…“ ‚…‘
Bulgarian „…“ ’…’

‘…’

Macedonian „…“ ’…‘
Albanian „…“ ‘…’
Estonian

Georgian

Lithuanian

„…“ Georgian: none
Amharic

Azerbaijani

Basque

French, Switzerland

German, Switzerland

Italian, Switzerland

Romansh

Tigrinya

Turkish

«…» ‏ Arabic: optional
French « … » “…”

« … »

¼ em
Belarusian

Catalan

Greek

Italian

Occitan

Portuguese, Portugal

Spanish

«…» “…” Catalan: none
Russian

Ukrainian

Uzbek

«…» „…“ Russian: none

Ukranian: none

Norwegian «…» ’…’
Arabic

Armenian

Kazakh

Khmer

Latvian

Mongolian Cyrillic

Pashto

Persian

Uyghur

«…» ‏ Arabic: optional
Danish »…«

„…“

›…‹

‚…‘

Chinese, Hong Kong

Chinese, Taiwan

Japanese

「…」

﹁
︰
﹂

『…』

﹃
︰

﹄

Chinese: fullwidth
Korean, South Korea 『…』

﹃
⋮
﹄

「…」

﹁
⋮
﹂

Korean, North Korea

New Tai Lue

Tai Le

Tibetan

《…》 〈…〉
Lojban lu … li'u

Special

Usages
『　』 「　」 title marks in Japanese to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
《　》 〈　〉 title marks in Chinese to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
♪ musical note in Japanese to indicate lyrics in a sentence
¿ inverted question mark in Spanish to indicate the begining of an interrogative sentence or phrase
¡ inverted exclamation mark in Spanish to indicate the begining of an exclamatory sentence or phrase
、 enumeration comma in Chinese between enumerated items
‧ middle dot in Chinese to separate characters in non-Han personal names

Usages

English
comma
period
question mark
exclamation mark
parentheses
colon
semicolon
ellipsis
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