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== Decimal separator ==
=== Decimal Separators ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!punctuation
!punctuation
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Cambodia
Cambodia


'''Cannada''', English
'''Canada ('''English)


Cayman Islands
Cayman Islands
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India
India
'''Ireland'''


Israel
Israel
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'''Luxembourg'''
'''Luxembourg'''


'''Macau''', Chinese
'''Macau''' (Chinese)
 
'''Malaysia'''


Maldives
Maldives
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People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China
'''Philippines'''


Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
'''Republic of China'''


Republic of Korea
Republic of Korea
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
'''Singapore'''


'''South Africa'''
'''South Africa'''
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
|Ireland
|'''Ireland'''


Malaysia
'''Malaysia'''


Philippines
'''Philippines'''


Republic of China
'''Republic of China'''


Singapore
'''Singapore'''
|Albania
|Albania


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Cameroon
Cameroon


'''Canada''', French
'''Canada''' (French)


Chile
Chile
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'''Luxembourg'''
'''Luxembourg'''


'''Macau''', Portuguese
'''Macau''' (Portuguese)


Macedonia (FYROM)
Macedonia


Madagascar
Madagascar
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=== Special ===
=== Digit Grouping Symbols ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
!mark
!name
!usages
|-
|-
|<big><big><big>『 』 「 」</big></big></big>
!punctuation
|title marks in Japanese
|<big><big><big>,</big></big></big>
|to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
|<big><big><big>.</big></big></big>
|<big><big><big>'</big></big></big>
|<big><big><big>''(space)''</big></big></big>
|-
|-
|<big><big><big>《 》 〈 〉</big></big></big>
!country or region
|title marks in Chinese
|Bangladesh
|to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
'''Canada (English''')
|-
 
|<big><big><big>♪</big></big></big>
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
|musical note in Japanese
 
|to indicate lyrics in a sentence
Hong Kong
|-
 
|<big><big><big>、</big></big></big>
India
|enumeration comma in Chinese (PRC) and Korean (DPRK)
 
|to enumerate items
'''Ireland'''
|-
 
|<big><big><big>‧</big></big></big>
Israel
|partition sign in Chinese and enumeration comma in Korean (ROK)
 
|to separate characters in non-Han personal names in Chinese; to enumerate items in Korean
Japan
 
Malaysia
 
Malta
 
Mexico
 
New Zealand
 
Pakistan
 
People's Republic of China
 
'''Philippines'''
 
'''Republic of China'''
 
'''Singapore'''
 
Thailand
 
United Kingdom
 
United States
|Argentina
Austria
 
Belgium (Dutch)
 
Bosnia and Herzegovina
 
Brazil
 
Chile
 
Colombia
 
Costa Rica
 
Croatia
 
Denmark
 
Germany
 
Greece
 
Indonesia
 
'''Ireland'''
 
Italy
 
'''Malaysia'''
 
Netherlands
 
'''Philippines'''
 
'''Republic of China'''
 
Romania
 
'''Singapore'''
 
Slovenia
 
Spain
 
Turkey
 
Vietnam
|Liechtenstein
 
'''Switzerland'''
|Albania
 
Australia
 
Belgium (French)
 
Bulgaria
 
'''Canada (English)'''
 
Canada (French)
 
Czechia
 
Estonia
 
Finland
 
France
 
Hungary
 
Italy
 
Kosovo
 
Latvia
 
Lithuania
 
Norway
 
People's Republic of China
 
Peru
 
Poland
 
Portugal
 
Russia
 
San Marino
 
Slovakia
 
South Africa
 
Sri Lanka
 
Sweden
 
'''Switzerland'''
 
Ukraine
 
Vietnam
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Revision as of 23:58, 25 August 2019

Punctuation-in-many-languages2.jpg

Appearance

Most common

comma period question mark exclamation mark parentheses colon semicolon
Arabic ،

common

Sindhi

.

common

۔

Urdu

؟ ! (…) : ؛
Armenian , ։ ՞ ՜ (…) ;
Bamum ! (…)
Bengali

Telugu

Tamil

Gujarati

Gurmukhi

Malayalam

Kannada

Oriya

,

common

.

alternative

? ! (…) : ;
Cyrillic

Georgian

Hebrew

, . ? ! (…) : ;
Devanagari ,

common

.

Marathi

? ! (…) : ;
Greek , . ; ! (…) :
Ge'ez ! (…)
Han (…)
Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana)

vertical; horizontal Jichishō standard

horizontal Monbushō standard

informal

(period as the formal)

(…)
Korean (Hangul + Han) ,

horizontal

vertical

. ? ! (…) : ;
Latin , . ?

common

¿…?

Spanish, Catalan

!

common

¡…!

Spanish, Catalan

(…) : ;
Sinhala , .

new

old

? ! (…) : ;
Thai (none) (space) ? ! (…) : ;
Vai ,

new

old

.

new

old

꘎꘎ (…) : ;

Note:

  • Punctuation in Han and Japanese are full-width
  • Some symbols look the same, but they have different Unicode codes.

Quotation marks

Some of them have alternatives

language primary secondary spacing
English, United Kindom

Scottish Gaelic

Welsh

‘…’ “…” English: 1–2 pt

Welsh: 1–2 pt

Afrikaans

Chinese, PRC

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 ‘…’
Romanian «…» none
Polish «…»

»…«

Hungarian »…«
Czech

German

Icelandic

Slovak

Slovenian

Sorbian

„…“ ‚…‘
Bulgarian ’…’

‘…’

Macedonian ’…‘
Albanian ‘…’
Estonian

Georgian

Lithuanian

Georgian: none
French «…» ‏ “…”

« … »

¼ em
Belarusian

Catalan

Greek

Italian

Occitan

Portuguese, Portugal

Spanish

“…” Catalan: none
Russian

Ukrainian

Uzbek

„…“ Russian: none

Ukranian: none

Norwegian ’…’
Arabic

Amharic Armenian

Azerbaijani

Basque

French, Switzerland

German, Switzerland

Italian, Switzerland

Kazakh

Khmer

Latvian

Mongolian (Cyrillic)

Pashto

Persian

Romansh

Tigrinya

Turkish

Uyghur

Arabic: optional
Danish »…«

„…“

›…‹

‚…‘

Chinese, Hong Kong

Chinese, ROC

Japanese

「…」



『…』


Korean, ROK 『…』



「…」



Korean, DPRK

New Tai Lue

Tai Le

Tibetan

《…》 〈…〉
Lojban lu … li'u

Decimal Separators

punctuation . · , ٫
country or region Australia

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbuda

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belize

Benin

Bermuda

British Virgin Islands

Botswana

Brunei

Cambodia

Canada (English)

Cayman Islands

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Egypt

El Salvador

Ethiopia

Grenada

Ghana

Guatemala

Guyana

Honduras

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Israel

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

Lebanon

Libya

Liberia

Liechtenstein

Luxembourg

Macau (Chinese)

Malaysia

Maldives

Malta

Malawi

Mexico

Montserrat

Myanmar

Namibia

Nepal

New Zealand

Nicaragua

Nigeria

Pakistan

Palestine

Panama

People's Republic of China

Philippines

Puerto Rico

Republic of China

Republic of Korea

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Singapore

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Switzerland

Tanzania

Thailand

The Bahamas

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Turks and Caicos Islands

Uganda

United Kingom

United States

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Ireland

Malaysia

Philippines

Republic of China

Singapore

Albania

Algeria

Andorra

Angola

Argentina

Armenia

Austria

Azerbaijan

Belarus

Belgium

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada (French)

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czechia

Democratic Republic of Congo

Denmark

Ecuador

Equatorial Guinea

Estonia

Faroes Islands

Finland

France

French Guiana

Gabon

Germany

Georgia

Greece

Greenland

Hungary

Iceland

Indonesia

Italy

Kazakhstan

Kosovo

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lebanon

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macau (Portuguese)

Macedonia

Madagascar

Mali

Moldova

Mongolia

Morocco

Mozambique

Namibia

Netherlands

Niger

Norway

Paraguay

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Republic of Congo

Romania

Russia

Rwanda

San Marino

Senegal

Serbia

Sierra leone

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Timor Leste

Tunisia

Turkey

Turkmenistan

Ukraine

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vatican City

Venezuela

Vietnam

Afghanistan

Bahrain

Egypt

Iran

Iraq

Kuwait

Oman

Qatar

Saudi Arabia

Sudan

Syria

United Arab Emirates

punctuation . , ٫
constructed language Esperanto

Ido

Interlingua

Volapük

Digit Grouping Symbols

punctuation , . ' (space)
country or region Bangladesh

Canada (English)

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Israel

Japan

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

New Zealand

Pakistan

People's Republic of China

Philippines

Republic of China

Singapore

Thailand

United Kingdom

United States

Argentina

Austria

Belgium (Dutch)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Costa Rica

Croatia

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Indonesia

Ireland

Italy

Malaysia

Netherlands

Philippines

Republic of China

Romania

Singapore

Slovenia

Spain

Turkey

Vietnam

Liechtenstein

Switzerland

Albania

Australia

Belgium (French)

Bulgaria

Canada (English)

Canada (French)

Czechia

Estonia

Finland

France

Hungary

Italy

Kosovo

Latvia

Lithuania

Norway

People's Republic of China

Peru

Poland

Portugal

Russia

San Marino

Slovakia

South Africa

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Switzerland

Ukraine

Vietnam

Usage

Comma

to separate a series of nouns to separate a series of adjectives to separate a series of independent clauses to separate a series of verbs to separate a series of phrases to enclose a non-defining relative clause to form a participial phrase to form a tag question after an interjection
English + + + + + + + + +

Colon

Semicolon

Period

Question mark

Exclamation mark

Quotation marks

Ellipse

Brackets

Parentheses

Apostrophe

Slash

Angle brackets

Braces

Hyphen

En dash

Em dash