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punctuation_mark

punctuation mark

English

Noun

punctuation mark ‎(plural punctuation marks)

Any of various symbols (see the table below) used in writing and printing to make the sense of what is written easier to determine.

Hyponyms

See also Wikisaurus:punctuation mark

Translations

symbol to make the sense of what is written easier to determine

Armenian: կետադրական նշան ‎(ketadrakan nšan)
Bashkir: тыныш билдәһе ‎(tïnïš bildähe)
Catalan: signe de puntuació m
Chinese:

Cantonese: 標點符號, 标点符号 ‎(biu¹ dim² fu⁴ hou⁶⁻²), 標點, 标点 ‎(biu¹ dim²), 句讀, 句读 ‎(geoi³ dau⁶)

Mandarin: 標點符號 (zh), 标点符号 (zh) ‎(biāodiǎn fúhào), 標點 (zh), 标点 (zh) ‎(biāodiǎn), 句讀 (zh), 句读 (zh) ‎(jùdòu)

Min Nan: 標點符號, 标点符号 ‎(piau-tiám hû-hō, phiau-tiám hû-hō), 標點 (zh-min-nan), 标点 ‎(piau-tiám, phiau-tiám), 句讀 (zh-min-nan), 句读 ‎(kù-tāu)
Crimean Tatar: toqtav işareti
Czech: interpunkční znaménko n
Dutch: leesteken (nl) n
Finnish: välimerkki (fi)
French: signe de ponctuation (fr) m

German: Satzzeichen (de) n
Greek: σημείο στίξης (el) n ‎(simeío stíxis), σημείο στίξεως (el) n ‎(simeío stíxeos)
Japanese: 句読点 (ja) ‎(くとうてん, kutōten)
Latvian: pieturzīme f
Macedonian: интерпункциски знак m ‎(interpunkciski znak), знак за интерпункција m ‎(znak za interpunkcija)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: skilletegn n
Persian: نشانهٔ سجاوندی ‎(nešâne-ye sajâvandi)
Polish: znak interpunkcyjny (pl) m
Portuguese: sinal de pontuação m
Russian: знак препина́ния (ru) m ‎(znak prepinánija)
Spanish: signo de puntuación m
Tagalog: bantas, bantas

See also

Punctuation

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
braces ( { } )
brackets ( [ ] )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )

dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
ellipsis ( … )
exclamation mark ( ! )
fraction slash ( ⁄ )
guillemets ( « » )

hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
interpunct ( · )
interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
parentheses ( ( ) )
period (US) or full stop (UK) ( . )

question mark ( ? )

quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

semicolon ( ; )

slash (US) or stroke (UK) ( / )

space ( )