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|Albanian
|AustraliaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaBangladeshBarbadosBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBotswanaBruneiCambodiaCannada, EnglishCayman IslandsDemocratic People<nowiki>'s Republic of KoreaDominicaDominican RepublicEgyptEl SalvadorGrenadaGhanaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasHong KongMacauIndiaIrelandIsraelJamaicaJapanKenyaLibyaLebanonLiechtenstein'''Luxembourg'''MalaysiaMaldivesMaltaMexicoMontserratMyanmar'''Namibia'''NepalNew ZealandNicaraguaNigeriaPakistanPalestinePanamaPeople's Republic of ChinaPhilippinesPuerto RicoRepublic of ChinaRepublic of KoreaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSingapore'''South Africa'''Sri Lanka'''Switzerland'''</nowiki>TanzaniaThailandThe BahamasTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsUgandaUnited KingomUnited StatesZimbabwe
Amharic
|AlbaniaAlgeriaAndorraAngolaArgentinaArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelarusBelgiumBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBrazilBulgariaCameroonCanada, FrenchChileColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEcuadorEstoniaFaroes IslandsFinlandFranceFrench GuianaGermanyGeorgiaGreeceGreenlandHungaryIcelandIndonesiaItalyKazakhstanKosovoKyrgyzstanLatviaLebanonLithuania<nowiki>'''Luxembourg'''Macau, PortugueseMacedonia (FYROM)MoldovaMongoliaMoroccoMozambique'''Namibia'''NetherlandsNorwayParaguayPeruPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovakiaSlovenia'''South Africa'''SpainSweden'''Switzerland'''</nowiki>TunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanUkraineUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaVietnamTimor Leste
 
|AfghanistanBahrainIranIraqKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaSyriaUnited Arab Emirates
Arabic
 
Bengali
 
Bosnian
 
Burmese
 
Cebuano
 
Chichewa
 
Chinese
 
English
 
Filipino
 
Georgian
 
Gujarati
 
Haitian
 
Hausa
 
Hawaiian
 
Hebrew
 
Hindi
 
Hmong
 
Igbo
 
Irish
 
Japanese
 
Kannada
 
Khmer
 
Korean
 
Kurdish
 
Lao
 
Latin
 
Malagasy
 
Malay
 
Malayalam
 
Maltese
 
Maori
 
Marathi
 
Mongolian
 
Nepali
 
Panjabi
 
Pashto
 
Persian
 
Samoan
 
Scottish Gaelic
 
Serbian
 
Shona
 
Sindhi
 
Sinhala
 
Somali
 
Sunda
 
Swahili
 
Tajik
 
Tamil
 
Telugu
 
Thai
 
Urdu
 
Welsh
 
Xhosa
 
Yiddish
 
Yoruba
 
Zulu
|Afrikaans
Armenian
 
Azeri
 
Belarusian
 
Basque
 
Bulgarian
 
Catalan
 
Corsian
 
Croatian
 
Czech
 
Danish
 
Dutch
 
Esperanto
 
Estonian
 
Finnish
 
French
 
Frisian
 
Galician
 
German
 
Greek
 
Hungarian
 
Icelandic
 
Ido
 
Indonesian
 
Interlingua
 
Italian
 
Javanese
 
Kazakh
 
Kyrgyz
 
Latvian
 
Lithuanian
 
Luxembourgish
 
Macedonian
 
Norwegian
 
Polish
 
Portuguese
 
Romanian
 
Russian
 
Sesotho
 
Slovak
 
Slovenian
 
Spanish
 
Swedish
 
Turkish
 
Ukrainian
 
Uzbek
 
Vietnamese
 
Volapük
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Revision as of 04:22, 19 May 2019

Punctuation-in-many-languages2.jpg

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

? ! ( ) : ;
Latin , . ?

common

¿...?

Spanish

!

common

¡...!

Spanish

( ) : ;
Greek , . ; ! ( ) :
Ge'ez ! ( )
Han ( )
Japanese (Han + Hiragana + Katakana) (period as formal)

informal

( )
Korean (Hangul + Han) ,

horizontal

vertical

. ? ! ( ) : ;
Sinhala , .

new

old

? ! ( ) : ;
Thai (none) (space) ? ! ( ) : ;
Vai ꘎꘎ ( ) : ;

Note:

  • Punctuation in Han and Japanese are full-width
  • Some symbols look like corresponding ones in Latin script, 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
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, ROC

Japanese

「…」



『…』


Korean, ROK 『…』



「…」



Korean, DPRK

New Tai Lue

Tai Le

Tibetan

《…》 〈…〉
Lojban lu … li'u

Decimal separator

punctuation . , ٫
country or region AustraliaAnguillaAntigua and BarbudaBangladeshBarbadosBelizeBermudaBritish Virgin IslandsBotswanaBruneiCambodiaCannada, EnglishCayman IslandsDemocratic People's Republic of KoreaDominicaDominican RepublicEgyptEl SalvadorGrenadaGhanaGuatemalaGuyanaHondurasHong KongMacauIndiaIrelandIsraelJamaicaJapanKenyaLibyaLebanonLiechtenstein'''Luxembourg'''MalaysiaMaldivesMaltaMexicoMontserratMyanmar'''Namibia'''NepalNew ZealandNicaraguaNigeriaPakistanPalestinePanamaPeople's Republic of ChinaPhilippinesPuerto RicoRepublic of ChinaRepublic of KoreaSaint Kitts and NevisSaint LuciaSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSingapore'''South Africa'''Sri Lanka'''Switzerland'''TanzaniaThailandThe BahamasTrinidad and TobagoTurks and Caicos IslandsUgandaUnited KingomUnited StatesZimbabwe AlbaniaAlgeriaAndorraAngolaArgentinaArmeniaAustriaAzerbaijanBelarusBelgiumBoliviaBosnia and HerzegovinaBrazilBulgariaCameroonCanada, FrenchChileColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCubaCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEcuadorEstoniaFaroes IslandsFinlandFranceFrench GuianaGermanyGeorgiaGreeceGreenlandHungaryIcelandIndonesiaItalyKazakhstanKosovoKyrgyzstanLatviaLebanonLithuania'''Luxembourg'''Macau, PortugueseMacedonia (FYROM)MoldovaMongoliaMoroccoMozambique'''Namibia'''NetherlandsNorwayParaguayPeruPolandPortugalRomaniaRussiaSerbiaSlovakiaSlovenia'''South Africa'''SpainSweden'''Switzerland'''TunisiaTurkeyTurkmenistanUkraineUruguayUzbekistanVenezuelaVietnamTimor Leste AfghanistanBahrainIranIraqKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaSyriaUnited Arab Emirates

Special

note name 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 (PRC) and Korean (DPRK) to enumerate items
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