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