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	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	„…”	»…«
Bulgarian	„…“	’…’ ‘…’
Czech German Icelandic Slovak Slovene Sorbian	„…“	‚…‘
Albanian	„…“	‘…’
Macedonian	„…“	’…‘
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

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.