分号 ;

Semicolon is one of the punctuation marks implemented by Aldus Manutius in the 15th century. Approximately at the same period of time it was noticed in Russian texts. The main function of a semicolon is to separate parts of complex sentences and convey the average meaning somewhere between a period and a comma. In Greek and Church Slavonic languages, it indicates a question (there is a separate symbol in Unicode for it). See more types of semicolons: ⁏ , ⸵ , ﹔ .

As for other writing systems, there semicolons are replaced by the following marks:

· Greek.

؛ Arabic.

፤ Ethiopic.

꛶ Bamum.

․ But. Armenian. Also used as a colon.

符号 「分号」 包含在 「基本拉丁字母」 块的 「ASCII标点符号」 子块中，并在1993年作为Unicode版本1.1的一部分获得批准。