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!Latin, Cyrillic. Korean
!Latin, Cyrillic
!Korean
!Arabic
!Arabic
!Japanese
!Japanese
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|comma
|''','''
|''','''
|''',''' horizontal
'''、'''vertical
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|period
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| colspan="2" |'''.'''
| colspan="3" |'''.'''
| colspan="2" |'''。'''
| colspan="2" |'''。'''
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|parentheses
|parentheses
| colspan="2" |'''( )'''
| colspan="3" |'''( )'''
| colspan="2" |'''（）'''
| colspan="2" |'''（）'''
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|question mark
|question mark
|'''?'''
| colspan="2" |'''?'''
|'''؟'''
|'''؟'''
| colspan="2" |'''？'''
| colspan="2" |'''？'''
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|exclamation mark
|exclamation mark
| colspan="2" |'''!'''
| colspan="3" |'''!'''
| colspan="2" |'''！'''
| colspan="2" |'''！'''
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|colon
|colon
| colspan="2" |''':'''
| colspan="3" |''':'''
| colspan="2" |'''：'''
| colspan="2" |'''：'''
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|semicolon
|semicolon
|''';'''
| colspan="2" |''';'''
|'''؛'''
|'''؛'''
| colspan="2" |'''；'''
| colspan="2" |'''；'''
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=== Ellipsis ===
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!
!
!
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|English, United Kindom
|…
. . .
|one ellipsis character
three spaced dots
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|Chinese
Japanese
|……
|two ellipsis characters
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|German
|''...''
|three dots
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|Korean
|…
……
|one ellipsis character
two ellipsis characters
|two ellipsis characters for custom use of silence
|}
|}


=== Special ===
=== Special ===
『　』 「　」 title marks in Japanese
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《　》 〈　〉 title marks in Chinese
!
 
!Usages
♪ musical note in Japanese
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|『　』 「　」
¿ inverted question mark in Spanish
|title marks in Japanese
 
|to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
¡ inverted exclamation mark in Spanish
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|《　》 〈　〉
、 enumeration comma in Chinese
|title marks in Chinese
|to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
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|♪
|musical note in Japanese
|to indicate lyrics in a sentence
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|¿
|inverted question mark in Spanish
|to indicate the begining of an interrogative sentence or phrase
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|¡
|inverted exclamation mark in Spanish
|to indicate the begining of an exclamatory sentence or phrase
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|、  
|enumeration comma in Chinese
|between enumerated items
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|‧
|middle dot in Chinese
|to separate characters in non-Han personal names
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== Usages ==
== Usages ==
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=== Special ===
Title marks are to indicate titles of books, movies, etc.
Musical notes are to indicate lyrics in a sentence.
Inverted question mark and inverted exclamation mark are to indicate the begining of the interrogative or exclamatory sentence or phrase.
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Revision as of 13:52, 9 June 2017

Punctuation-in-many-languages2.jpg

Marks

Most Common

Latin, Cyrillic Korean Arabic Japanese Chinese
comma , , horizontal

、vertical

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

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

“…”
Amharic

Azerbaijani

Basque

French, Switzerland

German, Switzerland

Italian, Switzerland

Romansh

Tigrinya

Turkish

«…» ‹…› Azerbaijani: 0–1 pt

Turkish: 0–1 pt

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 »…«

„…“

›…‹

‚…‘

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
Chinese, Hong Kong

Chinese, Taiwan

Japanese

「…」

﹁
︰
﹂

『…』

﹃
︰

﹄

Chinese: fullwidth
Korean, South Korea 『…』

﹃
⋮
﹄

「…」

﹁
⋮
﹂

Korean, North Korea

New Tai Lue

Tai Le

Tibetan

《…》 〈…〉
Lojban lu … li'u

Ellipsis

English, United Kindom …

. . .

one ellipsis character

three spaced dots

Chinese

Japanese

…… two ellipsis characters
German ... three dots
Korean …

……

one ellipsis character

two ellipsis characters

two ellipsis characters for custom use of silence

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
parentheses
question mark
exclamation mark
colon
semicolon
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