Language/Multiple-languages/Grammar/Punctuation-of-many-languages

Marks

Most Common

Puctuation in Japanese and Chinese are full-width

	Latin Cyrillic Greek Hebrew	Arabic	Devanagari	Bengali Gurmukhi Gujarati Hindi Oriya Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam	Korean	Japanese	Chinese
comma	,	،	,	,	, horizontal 、vertical	、	，
period	.	.	। common . Marathi	।	.	。	。
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