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!country or region
!country or region
 
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|Australia
*Australia
 
*Anguilla
Anguilla
*Antigua and Barbuda
 
*Bangladesh
Antigua and Barbuda
*Barbados
 
*Belize
Bangladesh
*Benin
 
*Bermuda
Barbados
*British Virgin Islands
 
*Botswana
Belize
*Brunei
 
*Cambodia
Benin
*'''Canada''' (English)
 
*Cayman Islands
Bermuda
*Democratic People's Republic of Korea
 
*Dominica
British Virgin Islands
*Dominican Republic
 
*'''Egypt'''
Botswana
*El Salvador
 
*Ethiopia
Brunei
*Grenada
 
*Ghana
Cambodia
*Great Britain and Northern Ireland
 
*Guatemala
'''Canada ('''English)
*Guyana
 
*Honduras
Cayman Islands
*Hong Kong
 
*India
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
*'''Ireland'''
 
*Israel
Dominica
*Jamaica
 
*Japan
Dominican Republic
*Kenya
 
*Lebanon
'''Egypt'''
*Libya
 
*Liberia
El Salvador
*Liechtenstein
 
*'''Luxembourg'''
Ethiopia
*'''Macau''' (Chinese)
 
*'''Malaysia'''
Grenada
*Maldives
 
*Malta
Ghana
*Malawi
 
*Mexico
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
*Montserrat
 
*Myanmar
Guatemala
*'''Namibia'''
 
*Nepal
Guyana
*New Zealand
 
*Nicaragua
Honduras
*Nigeria
 
*Pakistan
Hong Kong
*Palestine
 
*Panama
India
*People's Republic of China
 
*'''Philippines'''
'''Ireland'''
*Puerto Rico
 
*'''Republic of China'''
Israel
*Republic of Korea
 
*Saint Kitts and Nevis
Jamaica
*Saint Lucia
 
*Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Japan
*'''Singapore'''
 
*'''South Africa'''
Kenya
*Sri Lanka
 
*'''Sudan'''
Lebanon
*'''Switzerland'''
 
*Tanzania
Libya
*Thailand
 
*The Bahamas
Liberia
*Togo
 
*Trinidad and Tobago
Liechtenstein
*Turks and Caicos Islands
 
*Uganda
'''Luxembourg'''
*United States of America
 
*Zambia
'''Macau''' (Chinese)
*Zimbabwe
 
|
'''Malaysia'''
*'''Ireland'''
 
*'''Malaysia'''
Maldives
*'''Philippines'''
 
*'''Republic of China'''
Malta
*'''Singapore'''
 
|
Malawi
*Albania
 
*Algeria
Mexico
*Andorra
 
*Angola
Montserrat
*Argentina
 
*Armenia
Myanmar
*Austria
 
*Azerbaijan
'''Namibia'''
*Belarus
 
*Belgium
Nepal
*Bolivia
 
*Bosnia and Herzegovina
New Zealand
*Brazil
 
*Bulgaria
Nicaragua
*Burkina Faso
 
*Burundi
Nigeria
*Cameroon
 
*'''Canada''' (French)
Pakistan
*Chile
 
*Colombia
Palestine
*Costa Rica
 
*Croatia
Panama
*Cuba
 
*Cyprus
People's Republic of China
*Czechia
 
*Democratic Republic of Congo
'''Philippines'''
*Denmark
 
*Ecuador
Puerto Rico
*Equatorial Guinea
 
*Estonia
'''Republic of China'''
*Faroes Islands
 
*Finland
Republic of Korea
*France
 
*French Guiana
Saint Kitts and Nevis
*Gabon
 
*Germany
Saint Lucia
*Georgia
 
*Greece
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
*Greenland
 
*Hungary
'''Singapore'''
*Iceland
 
*Indonesia
'''South Africa'''
*Italy
 
*Kazakhstan
Sri Lanka
*Kosovo
 
*Kyrgyzstan
'''Sudan'''
*Latvia
 
*Lebanon
'''Switzerland'''
*Lithuania
 
*'''Luxembourg'''
Tanzania
*'''Macau''' (Portuguese)
 
*Macedonia
Thailand
*Madagascar
 
*Mali
The Bahamas
*Moldova
 
*Mongolia
Togo
*Morocco
 
*Mozambique
Trinidad and Tobago
*'''Namibia'''
 
*Netherlands
Turks and Caicos Islands
*Niger
 
*Norway
Uganda
*Paraguay
 
*Peru
United States of America
*Poland
 
*Portugal
Zambia
*Republic of Congo
 
*Romania
Zimbabwe
*Russia
|'''Ireland'''
*Rwanda
 
*San Marino
'''Malaysia'''
*Senegal
 
*Serbia
'''Philippines'''
*Sierra leone
 
*Slovakia
'''Republic of China'''
*Slovenia
 
*'''South Africa'''
'''Singapore'''
*Spain
|Albania
*Sweden
 
*'''Switzerland'''
Algeria
*Timor-Leste
 
*Tunisia
Andorra
*Turkey
 
*Turkmenistan
Angola
*Ukraine
 
*Uruguay
Argentina
*Uzbekistan
 
*Vatican City
Armenia
*Venezuela
 
*Vietnam
Austria
|
 
*Afghanistan
Azerbaijan
*Bahrain
 
*'''Egypt'''
Belarus
*Iran
 
*Iraq
Belgium
*Kuwait
 
*Oman
Bolivia
*Qatar
 
*Saudi Arabia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
*'''Sudan'''
 
*Syria
Brazil
*United Arab Emirates
 
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
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!constructed language
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|Esperanto
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*Esperanto
Ido
*Ido
 
*Interlingua
Interlingua
*Volapük
 
Volapük
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Revision as of 10:44, 26 June 2022

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Symbol

The most common

Note: the followings are scripts instead of languages.

script 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

vertical; horizontal Jichishō standard

horizontal Monbushō standard

informal

(period as the formal)

(…)
  • Korean
,

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

language primary secondary spacing
  • English, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Welsh
‘…’ “…” English: 1–2 pt

Welsh: 1–2 pt

  • Afrikaans
  • Chinese, People's Republic of China
  • Dutch
  • English, United States of America
  • English, Canada
  • Esperanto
  • Filipino
  • Hindi
  • Interlingua
  • Irish
  • Korean, Republic of Korea
  • Malay, Indonesia
  • Maltese
  • Portuguese, Brazil
  • Spanish, Spain
  • Tamil
  • Thai
  • Turkish
  • Urdu
“…” ‘…’ English: 1–2 pt

Chinese: fullwidth

Irish: 1–2 pt

  • Lao
  • Vietnamese
“…”
  • Latvian
“…”

„…”

  • Finnish
  • Swedish
”…” ’…’
  • Bosnian
”…”

„…”

’…’
  • Hebrew
„…” ‚…’
  • Serbian
„…” ’…’
  • Croatian
„…” ‘…’
  • Romanian
„…” «…» none
  • Polish
„…” »…«
  • Hungarian
„…” »…«
  • Czech
  • German, Germany
  • Icelandic
  • Lithuanian
  • Slovak
  • Slovenian
  • Sorbian
„…“ ‚…‘
  • Bulgarian
„…“ ’…’

‘…’

  • Macedonian
„…“ ’…‘
  • Albanian
„…“ ‘…’
  • Estonian
  • Georgian
„…“ Georgian: none
  • Amharic
  • French, Switzerland
  • German, Switzerland
  • Italian, Switzerland
  • Romansh
  • Uighur
«…» ‏ ‹…› ‏
  • French, France
«…» ‏ “…”

«…»

¼ em
  • Basque
  • Catalan
  • Galician
  • Greek
  • Italian, Italy
  • Occitan
  • Portuguese, Portugal
  • Spanish, Spain
«…» ‏ “…” Catalan: none
  • Azerbaijani
  • Belarusian
  • Mongolian (Cyrillic)
  • Russian
  • Uzbek
«…» ‏ „…“ Russian: none

Ukranian: none

  • Ukrainian
«…» “…”

‘…’

  • Ido
«…» ‏ ‘…’
  • Norwegian
«…» ‏ ’…’
  • Arabic
  • Armenian
  • Kazakh
  • Khmer
  • Pashto
  • Persian
  • Tigrinya
  • Uyghur
«…»‏ Arabic: optional
  • Mongolian (Mongolian)

《…》

〈…〉

  • Danish
»…«

"…"

›…‹

‚…‘

  • Chinese, Hong Kong
  • Chinese, Republic of China
  • Japanese
「…」



『…』


  • Korean, Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • New Tai Lue
  • Tai Le
  • Tibetan
《…》 〈…〉
  • Lojban
lu … li'u

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

Decimal separator

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
  • Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • 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 States of America
  • 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

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

Digit group delimiter

punctuation , . ' (space)
country or region Bangladesh

Canada (English)

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Israel

Japan

Malaysia

Malta

Mexico

New Zealand

Pakistan

People's Republic of China

Philippines

Republic of China

Singapore

Thailand

United States of America

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

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator

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