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Marks to indicate pacing of written text
Punctuation marks are marks indicating how a piece of written text should be read (silently or aloud) and, consequently, understood. The oldest known
Punctuation
Punctuation mark with two dots (:)
The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, or a quoted
Colon_(punctuation)
Punctuation to signal the end of a sentence (.)
(Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point (.), is a punctuation mark used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative
Full_stop
support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides
Japanese_punctuation
Slanting line punctuation mark (/)
The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /. It is also known as a stroke or solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names
Slash_(punctuation)
Punctuation of writing as used in the English language
Punctuation in the English language helps the reader to understand a sentence through visual means other than just the letters of the alphabet. English
English_punctuation
Punctuation used with Chinese characters
Chinese punctuation is the punctuation system used in writing of Chinese. The standard in all Sinophone regions, including mainland China, Taiwan, Hong
Chinese_punctuation
language has used various writing systems with varying orthographies and punctuation over time. Writing systems that saw significant use for Korean include
Korean_punctuation
Punctuation or diacritical mark (')
/ /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. The apostrophe (’, ') is a punctuation mark and sometimes a diacritical mark in languages that use the Latin
Apostrophe
Blank area that separates text
a colon-like punctuation mark to separate words. There are two Unicode characters dedicated for this: U+16EB ᛫ RUNIC SINGLE PUNCTUATION and U+16EC ᛬ RUNIC
Space_(punctuation)
Proposed form of notation used to denote irony or sarcasm in text
support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Irony punctuation is any form of notation proposed or used to denote verbal irony in written
Irony_punctuation
Unicode character block
General Punctuation is a Unicode block containing punctuation, spacing, and formatting characters for use with all scripts and writing systems. Included
General_Punctuation
Topics referred to by the same term
through a letter Bavarian language (ISO 639-3: bar) Vertical bar, a punctuation symbol X-bar theory, in linguistics Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, US
Bar
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility
List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks
List_of_typographical_symbols_and_punctuation_marks
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
(abbreviation) – Greek symbol equivalent to & List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks "The Ampersand & More" Archived 4 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
Ampersand
Long horizontal line punctuation mark
The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from
Dash
Triple-dot punctuation mark
of ellipsis, or ellipsis points, or, colloquially, dot, dot, dot is a punctuation mark consisting of a series of three dots. An ellipsis can be used in
Ellipsis
Punctuation mark (,)
The comma , is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. Some typefaces render it as a small line, slightly curved or
Comma
Punctuation mark
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They
Bracket
Unicode character block
symbols, ancient Greek punctuation, and German dictionary marks. Additional punctuation characters are in the General Punctuation block and sprinkled in
Supplemental_Punctuation
Typographic character indicating a question (?)
known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates a question or interrogative clause or phrase in many
Question_mark
Punctuation mark (;)
semicolon ; (or semi-colon) is a symbol commonly used as orthographic punctuation. In the English language, a semicolon is most commonly used to link (in
Semicolon
Punctuation mark (!)
mark, !, (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection, an exclamation, a noise to indicate
Exclamation_mark
Usage of punctuation
talking marks, speech marks, quote marks, quotemarks or speechmarks, are punctuation marks placed on either side of a word or phrase in order to identify
Quotation_marks_in_English
Typographical symbol (*)
In English-language typography the asterisk is placed after all other punctuation marks (for example, commas, colons, or periods) except for the dash.
Asterisk
Unicode character block
(SMP): U+12000–U+123FF Cuneiform U+12400–U+1247F Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation U+12480–U+1254F Early Dynastic Cuneiform The sample glyphs in the chart
Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation
Cuneiform_Numbers_and_Punctuation
Symbol often denoting 'yes' or 'correct'
Swedish Academy. 1917. Version 3.2 of the Unicode Standard, General Punctuation 2002-03-27 "Internationalization". W3.org. W3C. Archived from the original
Check_mark
Video-game comedy-review series
Zero Punctuation is a series of video game reviews created by the English comedy writer and video game journalist Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw. From its inception
Zero_Punctuation
Combined question mark and exclamation mark
other symbols. The interrobang, ‽, also known as the interabang is a punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known
Interrobang
Punctuation mark with various forms
may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Quotation marks are punctuation marks used in pairs in various writing systems to identify direct speech
Quotation_mark
Topics referred to by the same term
"(character)" may refer to: (character): Space (punctuation) _ (character): Underscore : (character): Colon (punctuation) Character (disambiguation) Character (symbol)
(character)
verses are divided according to the rhythm of the language. The Qur'anic punctuation is, therefore, not only based on the structure or the syntax of the sentence
Qur'anic_punctuation
Typographical symbol
interpunct, raised dot, middot, medial point, or centered dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation
Middle_dot
Grammatically correct sentence demonstrating lexical ambiguity
sentence used to demonstrate lexical ambiguity and the necessity of punctuation, which serves as a substitute for the intonation, stress, and pauses
James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher
James_while_John_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_had_a_better_effect_on_the_teacher
Alphabet used to write the Armenian language
in Armenian as they look too much like other – unrelated – Armenian punctuation marks. , – The storaket is used as a comma, and placed as in English
Armenian_alphabet
Editors' marks on manuscripts
FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION (used as an obelism) U+2059 ⁙ FIVE DOT PUNCTUATION (In this context, the Greek pentonkion) U+205A ⁚ TWO DOT PUNCTUATION (used as
Obelism
Vietnamese punctuation (Vietnamese: chấm câu) refers to the usage of punctuation marks in Vietnamese texts. Historically, the Vietnamese language was
Vietnamese_punctuation
Punctuation conventions of the Hebrew language over time
Hebrew punctuation is similar to that of English and other Western languages, Modern Hebrew having imported additional punctuation marks from these languages
Hebrew_punctuation
Native alphabet of the Korean language
the latter practice has become dominant. Hangul punctuation is now largely similar to Western punctuation, with some differences. Spaces between words or
Hangul
Punctuation mark used to join words
The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen
Hyphen
Typographical mark (\)
The backslash \ is a typographical mark used mainly in computing and mathematics. It is the mirror image of the common slash ('solidus'), /. It is a relatively
Backslash
Marks that identify the end of some text
Terminal punctuation refers to the punctuation marks used to identify the end of a portion of text. Terminal punctuation marks are also referred to as
Terminal_punctuation
Computer text file character representing blank space
§ Character classes for the white-space character class. Space bar Space (punctuation) Tab key Trimming (computer programming) Whitespace (programming language)
Whitespace_character
Unicode character block
Tangut characters. Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation marks used by ideographic scripts such as
Ideographic Symbols and Punctuation
Ideographic_Symbols_and_Punctuation
Writing system of the ancient Near East
Cuneiform U+12400–U+1247F (116 assigned characters) Cuneiform Numbers and Punctuation U+12480–U+1254F (196 assigned characters) Early Dynastic Cuneiform Proto-cuneiform
Cuneiform
The Chinese Union Bible with New Punctuation, commonly referred to as Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation (CUNP or CUVNP) in the Christian circles
Chinese Union Bible with New Punctuation
Chinese_Union_Bible_with_New_Punctuation
2003 non-fiction book on punctuation by Lynne Truss
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation is a non-fiction book written by Lynne Truss, the former host of BBC Radio 4's Cutting
Eats,_Shoots_&_Leaves
Topics referred to by the same term
East Asian punctuation can refer to: Chinese punctuation Japanese punctuation Korean punctuation CJK Symbols and Punctuation (Unicode block) Halfwidth
East_Asian_punctuation
Group of Unicode symbols
CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also
CJK_Symbols_and_Punctuation
Typographic symbol
The vertical bar, |, is a glyph with various uses in mathematics, computing, and typography. It has many names, often related to particular meanings: Sheffer
Vertical_bar
Typographic technique
Hanging punctuation or exdentation is a microtypographic technique of typesetting punctuation marks and bullet points, most commonly quotation marks and
Hanging_punctuation
Punctuation in the Slovene language
Punctuation marks are one or two part graphical marks used in writing, denoting tonal progress, pauses, sentence type (syntactic use), abbreviations,
Slovene_punctuation
Eastern Romance language
/t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ before a central vowel instead of ci- and gi-. Uses of punctuation peculiar to Romanian are: Quotation marks use one of the Polish quotation
Romanian_language
Spelling and punctuation of the French language
transcription delimiters. French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language. It is based on a combination of phonemic and
French_orthography
Punctuation marks (¿ and ¡)
inverted, turned or rotated) question mark ¿ and exclamation mark ¡ are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences or clauses
Upside-down question and exclamation marks
Upside-down_question_and_exclamation_marks
Typographical mark (^)
proofreader's caret, ‸, a mark used in proofreading to indicate where a punctuation mark, word, or phrase should be inserted into a document. The ASCII standard
Caret
Punctuation used to mark proper nouns in Chinese
Modern versions of the Chinese language have two kinds of punctuation marks for indicating proper nouns: the proper name mark / proper noun mark (Simplified
Chinese punctuation for proper nouns
Chinese_punctuation_for_proper_nouns
Indicates an intentional reproduction in quotation
original source, including erroneous, archaic, or unusual spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Sic also applies to any surprising assertion, faulty reasoning
Sic
Taking in the meaning of letters or symbols
process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), punctuation, alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension
Reading
Intelligence of machines
predicting the next token (a token being usually a word, subword, or punctuation). Throughout this pretraining, GPT models accumulate knowledge about
Artificial_intelligence
Topics referred to by the same term
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Colon commonly refers to: Colon (punctuation) (:), a punctuation mark Colon (anatomy), a major part of the large intestine Common
Colon
1802 autobiography by Timothy Dexter
spelling and grammar often considered abysmally bad, and contains almost no punctuation. Dexter was a rich businessman and eccentric, known for gaining his wealth
A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones
U.S. observance dedicated to punctuation; September 24
National Punctuation Day is a celebration of punctuation that occurs each year on September 24 in the United States of America. Founded by Jeff Rubin
National_Punctuation_Day
Typographical symbol (•)
In typography, a bullet or bullet point, •, is a typographical mark used to introduce items in a list. For example: Milk Eggs Bread Butter The bullet symbol
Bullet_(typography)
Letter used in some languages for vowel length or tone
differs from the colon punctuation mark, :. In some fonts, the two dots are placed a bit closer together than those of the punctuation colon so that the two
Colon_(letter)
West Germanic language
includes a system of punctuation marks that is similar to those used in most alphabetic languages around the world. The purpose of punctuation is to mark meaningful
English_language
Notation indicating the writer's assessment of a chess move
This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. When annotating chess
Chess_annotation_symbols
American online performance artist (born 1971)
Hosea Jan "Ze" Frank (/ˈzeɪ/; born March 31, 1971) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles
Ze_Frank
Typographic symbol (underline)
Slavic languages, the underscore has recently gained prominence as the punctuation to form gender-neutral suffixes in gendered nouns and other parts of
Underscore
Most populous city in Canada
and topical guide to Toronto The motto is typically rendered without punctuation, while the city's coat of arms uses typographical bullets to space the
Toronto
1850 treaty between Austria and Prussia
The Punctation of Olmütz (German: Olmützer Punktation), also called the Agreement of Olmütz, was a treaty between Prussia and Austria, dated 29 November
Punctation_of_Olmütz
Printing technology and system based on reconfigurable blocks of glyphs
elements of a document (usually individual alphanumeric characters or punctuation marks) usually on the medium of paper. The world's first movable type
Movable_type
American internet personality (born 1999)
Trademark Office due, in part, to what media outlets described as "poor punctuation." Her trademark application was approved in April 2019. In September
Olivia_Jade
Character encoding standard
control characters – a total of 128 code points. The set of available punctuation had significant impact on the syntax of computer languages and text markup
ASCII
Ancient script of Central and South Asia
Brahmic script family to this "splendidly reasoned" system of arrangement. Punctuation can be perceived as more of an exception than as a general rule in Asokan
Brahmi_script
Typographical symbol (†)
spit'. Partridge, Eric (2004) [1953]. You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies. London: Routledge. p. 235. ISBN 0-415-05075-8. "Catalogue
Dagger_(mark)
Abbreviation consisting of initial letters of a phrase
often spelled with the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation. In English, the word is used in two ways. In the narrow sense, an acronym
Acronym
Conversion of character sequences into token sequences in computer science
natural language, those categories include nouns, verbs, adjectives, punctuations etc. In case of a programming language, the categories include identifiers
Lexical_analysis
Alternative width characters in East Asian typography
includes a fullwidth version of all the ASCII characters and some non-ASCII punctuation such as the Yen sign, halfwidth versions of katakana and hangul, and
Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms
Punctuation mark in Indic scripts
In Indic scripts, the daṇḍa (Sanskrit: दण्ड daṇḍa "stick") is a punctuation mark. The grapheme consists of a single vertical stroke. The daṇḍa marks the
Danda
Topics referred to by the same term
("."), a punctuation character interpunct, middot, or, centred-dot ("·"), a punctuation character bullet (typography) ("•"), a punctuation character
._(disambiguation)
Type of machine learning model
encoding. In the first step, all unique characters (including blanks and punctuation marks) are treated as an initial set of n-grams (i.e. initial set of
Large_language_model
Form of literary device
include 'A Noiseless Patient Spider' by Walt Whitman. Punctuations as poetic devices Punctuation is an object of interpretation in poetry; it is semantic
Poetic_device
Braille alphabet used for the languages of the mainland Nordic countries
Braille is a braille alphabet used, with differences in orthography and punctuation, for the languages of the mainland Nordic countries: Danish, Norwegian
Scandinavian_Braille
Quotation marks used to indicate non-standard usage
writing. The first recorded use of the term scare quotes referring to punctuation marks was by the philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe in her 1956 essay "Aristotle
Scare_quotes
Double chevrons used as quotation marks
Guillemets are a pair of punctuation marks in the form of sideways double chevrons, « and », sometimes used as quotation marks or ditto marks. When used
Guillemet
Writing system of Modern Greek
stop at the end of a completed thought. Other writers employed two dot punctuation ⟨⁚⟩ to mark the ends of sentences or changing speakers. Less often, arrangements
Greek_orthography
by a punctuation mark called a 中黒 (nakaguro; "middle dot") to aid Japanese readers. For example, ビル・ゲイツ (Biru Geitsu; Bill Gates). This punctuation is also
Japanese_writing_system
Script used to write the Greek language
form of each letter. It was written without diacritics and with little punctuation. By the 9th century, Byzantine scribes had begun to employ the lowercase
Greek_alphabet
Sharp, bitter remark
to denote irony or sarcasm in written conversation, several forms of punctuation have been proposed. Among them is the irony mark of Alcanter de Brahm
Sarcasm
Encoding for a sequence of byte values using 64 printable characters
use. For instance, uuencode uses uppercase letters, digits, and many punctuation characters, but no lowercase. Notable applications of Base64: Web pages
Base64
Obsolete typographical construction
typographical construction. Keith Houston reported that this form of punctuation doubling, which involved the comma dash ,— , the semicolon dash ;—
Compound_point
Special character in text processing
this. In French typography, non-breaking spaces are used before "high punctuation" (:, ;, ?, and !), on the interior side of guillemets (« and »), and
Non-breaking_space
Special character in text processing
space is Unicode character U+200B, and is located in the Unicode General Punctuation block. In HTML, it can be represented by the character entity reference
Zero-width_space
Alphabet invented for writing the Osage language
The Osage script is a script promulgated in 2006 and revised 2012–2014 for the Osage language. Because Latin orthographies were subject to interference
Osage_script
American multinational technology conglomerate
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Amazon_(company)
not included in kana or kanji groupings. Japanese map symbols Japanese punctuation Emoji, which originated in Japanese mobile phone culture "Standard Shime
List of Japanese typographic symbols
List_of_Japanese_typographic_symbols
ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are
List_of_Unicode_characters
Grammar of the English language
English grammar is the set of structural rules of the English language. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and whole texts
English_grammar
British video game journalist and author (born 1983)
and humourist. He is best known for his video game review series Zero Punctuation, which he produced for The Escapist from 2007 to 2023, and its spiritual
Yahtzee_Croshaw
PUNCTUATION
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Boy/Male
Armenian, Australian
Black Eye
Girl/Female
Arthurian Legend Celtic Welsh
Fair one. Guinevere was King Arthur's mythological queen.
Girl/Female
Latin
Alert.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Gods gracious butterfly
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Indian
Variety
Boy/Male
Muslim
Of happiness
Male
German
Low German pet form of names beginning with Diet-, TIELO means "people, race."
Female
Welsh
Feminine form of Welsh Dilwyn, DILWEN means "truly blessed."Â
Boy/Male
British, English, Jamaican
Blond; From the White Lock of Hair
Girl/Female
Tamil
Dow eyed
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
a.
Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation.
n.
Division of the text of a book into lines; especially, the division of the text of books into lines accommodated to the sense, -- a method of writing manuscripts used before punctuation was adopted.
n.
The insertion of points between word or sentences; punctuation.
n.
In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation point; as, teach the pupil to mind the pauses.
n.
To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
n.
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
n.
The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
n.
A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
n.
A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
n.
The punctuation mark [;] indicating a separation between parts or members of a sentence more distinct than that marked by a comma.
n.
The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.