Language/Multiple-languages/Grammar/Punctuation-of-many-languages
Marks
Common
English | Japanese | Chinese | |
---|---|---|---|
comma | , | 、 | , |
period | . | 。 | |
parentheses | ( ) | () | |
question mark | ? | ? | |
exclamation mark | ! | ! | |
colon | : | : | |
semicolon | ; | ; |
Quotation marks
Primary | Secondary | |
---|---|---|
English, United Kindom
Scottish Gaelic Welsh |
‘…’ | “…” |
Afrikaans
Chinese, China English, United States English, Canada Esperanto Filipino Hindi Indonesian Irish Interlingua Maltese Portuguese, Brazil Thai |
“…” | ‘…’ |
Lao
Vietnamese |
“…” | |
Amharic
Azerbaijani Basque French, Switzerland German, Switzerland Italian, Switzerland Romansh Tigrinya Turkish |
«…» | ‹…› |
French | « … » | “…”
« … » |
Belarusian
Catalan Greek Italian Occitan Portuguese, Portugal Spanish |
«…» | “…” |
Russian
Ukrainian Uzbek |
«…» | „…“ |
Norwegian | «…» | ’…’ |
Arabic
Armenian Kazakh Khmer Latvian Mongolian Cyrillic Pashto Persian Uyghur |
«…» | |
Danish | »…«
„…“ |
›…‹
‚…‘ |
Finnish
Swedish |
”…” | ’…’ |
Bosnian | ”…”
„…” |
’…’ |
Dutch
Hebrew |
„…” | ‚…’ |
Serbian | „…” | ’…’ |
Croatian | „…” | ‘…’ |
Polish | „…” | «…»
»…« |
Romanian | „…” | «…» |
Hungarian | „…” | »…« |
Bulgarian | „…“ | ’…’
‘…’ |
Czech
German Icelandic Slovak Slovene Sorbian |
„…“ | ‚…‘ |
Albanian | „…“ | ‘…’ |
Macedonian | „…“ | ’…‘ |
Estonian
Georgian Lithuanian |
„…“ | |
Chinese, Hong Kong
Chinese, Taiwan Japanese |
「…」 ﹁ |
『…』 ﹃ |
Korean, South Korea | 『…』
﹃ |
「…」
﹁ |
Korean, North Korea
New Tai Lue Tai Le Tibetan |
《…》 | 〈…〉 |
Lojban | lu … li'u |
Special
『 』 「 」 title marks in Japanese 《 》 〈 〉 title marks in Chinese ♪ musical note in Japanese ¿ inverted question mark in Spanish
¡ inverted exclamation mark in Spanish
、 enumeration comma in Chinese
Usages
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.