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	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 (Han + Hiragana + Katakana)	、 vertical; horizontal Jichishō standard ， horizontal Monbushō standard	。	？ informal (period as the formal)	！	（…）	：	；
Korean (Hangul + Han)	, 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

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
French	«…» ‏	“…” « … »	¼ em
Belarusian Catalan Greek Italian Occitan Portuguese, Portugal Spanish		“…”	Catalan: none
Russian Ukrainian Uzbek		„…“	Russian: none Ukranian: none
Norwegian		’…’
Arabic Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque French, Switzerland German, Switzerland Italian, Switzerland Kazakh Khmer Latvian Mongolian (Cyrillic) Pashto Persian Romansh Tigrinya Turkish 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	Australia Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Bangladesh Barbados Belize Benin Bermuda British Virgin Islands Botswana Brunei Cambodia Cannada, English Cayman Islands Democratic People's Republic of Korea Dominica Dominican Republic Egypt El Salvador Ethiopia Grenada Ghana 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 Kingom United States Zambia Zimbabwe	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 (FYROM) 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

Tally marks (not punctuation)

This section should be removed and appear in a lesson about numerals. It will be here before that lesson created.

region	mark
Most of Europe, Zimbabwe, Australia, New Zealand and North America
France, Spain, their former colonies and Brazil
Cultures using Chinese characters

Special

mark	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
、	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

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
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