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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
support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Japanese punctuation (Japanese: 約物, Hepburn: yakumono) includes various written marks (besides
Japanese_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
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 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
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)
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (!)
exclamation 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
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
Symbol representing the word "and" (&)
Boolean types. And (disambiguation) List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks Kai (abbreviation) Heta Tironian notes Ampersand curve "The Ampersand
Ampersand
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
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
Typographical symbol
middle dot, raised dot, middot, medial point, or centered dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation
Interpunct
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
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
Combined question mark and exclamation mark
(often rendered as ?!, !?, ?!?, ?!!, !??, or !?!), is an unconventional punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of the question mark (also known
Interrobang
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vietnamese punctuation (Vietnamese: chấm câu) refers to the usage of punctuation marks in Vietnamese texts. Historically, the Vietnamese language was
Vietnamese_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
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
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
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)
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
Topics referred to by the same term
"(character)" may refer to: (character): Space (punctuation) _ (character): Underscore : (character): Colon (punctuation) Character (disambiguation) Character (symbol)
(character)
Typographic technique
Hanging punctuation or exdentation is a microtypographic technique of typesetting punctuation marks and bullet points, most commonly quotation marks and
Hanging_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 In
Cuneiform
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
1802 autobiography by Timothy Dexter
unorthodox spelling and grammar conventions, and contains almost no punctuation. Dexter was a rich businessman and eccentric, known for gaining his wealth
A_Pickle_for_the_Knowing_Ones
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
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
Aspect of typography
defines the meaning and rightful usage of typographic signs, notably punctuation marks, and elements of layout such as flush margins and indentation.
Typographical_syntax
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Pictorial representation of a facial expression
pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction
Emoticon
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
Style of writing without spaces between words
spaces or other marks between the words or sentences. The form also lacks punctuation, diacritics, or distinguished letter case. In the West, the oldest Greek
Scriptio_continua
of Unicode characters List of writing systems Punctuation List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks The remainder of this list focuses on graphemes
List_of_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
(8 code points considered emoji), Basic Latin (12), CJK Symbols and Punctuation (2), Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement (41), Enclosed Alphanumerics (1)
List_of_emojis
Rendering Greek in Latin characters
Hellenistic period, a variety of symbols arose for punctuation or editorial marking; such punctuation (or the lack thereof) are variously romanized, inserted
Romanization_of_Greek
Braille alphabet of Spanish and Galician
slight modification of the accented letters and some differences in punctuation. Further conventions have been unified by the Latin American Blind Union
Spanish_Braille
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
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
Orthography of the Esperanto language
twenty-eight letters, with upper and lower case. This is supplemented by punctuation marks and by various logograms, such as the digits 0–9, currency signs
Esperanto_orthography
Extinct system of diacritics for Hebrew
The Palestinian vocalization, Palestinian pointing, Palestinian niqqud or Vocalization of the Land of Israel (Hebrew: נִקּוּד אֶרֶץ־יִשְׂרְאֵלִי, romanized: niqqūḏ
Palestinian_vocalization
1960 novel by Jerzy Andrzejewski
000 words[citation needed] written in two sentences, with nearly no punctuation, making it an exercise in constrained writing. The second sentence contains
The_Gates_of_Paradise_(novel)
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
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
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Boy/Male
Tamil
Devanand | தேவாநஂத
Joy of God, Son of God
Male
Irish
Irish name derived from the word gobha, GOIBNIU means "smith." In mythology, this is the name of a smith god who provided weapons for the Tuatha De Danaan.
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Little Baby
Girl/Female
Indian, Telugu
God Lamp
Boy/Male
Australian, British, English
From the Temple Settlement
Boy/Male
Biblical American Hebrew
Watchman; making bare; pouring out.
Girl/Female
Christian, Hindu, Indian
Cute
Boy/Male
Tamil
Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu
Boy/Male
English American
Three. Also atraigh 'Strand'.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, British, Chinese, Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Jamaican, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish
Female Sheep; Form of Rachel; An Innocent Ewe; Lamb; Ewe
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
PUNCTUATION
n.
The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.
n.
To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
n.
The insertion of points between word or sentences; 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.