Comma,

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U+002C
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Symbol Meaning

Comma serves the function of separating parts in a sentence. The European form of the comma developed from the symbol / which was previously used for a similar purpose. The English name “comma” is derived from the Greek word κόμμα, meaning “cut-off” or “short sentence.” Commas first appeared in Russian texts in the 1520s.

Other symbols that function as commas include ̕ , , , and .

There are more symbols that serve as commas in other writing systems:

، Arabic.

Chinese and Japanese.

՝ Armenian.

߸ N'Ko.

Mongolian.

Manchu Mongolian (Old Mongolian).

Lisu.

Vai.

Bamum.

Balinese. It's called “karik siki” and it is placed before and after a number to separate it from the text.

The symbol “Comma” is included in the “ASCII punctuation” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.

Text is also available in the following languages: Русский;

Synonyms

decimal separator.

Unicode Name Comma
Unicode Number
HTML Code
CSS Code
Entity ,
Plane 0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock ASCII punctuation
Unicode Version 1.1 (1993)
Alt Code
Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) None
Composition Exclusion No
Case change 002C
Simple case change 002C
Grapheme_Base +
scripts Common
Terminal_Punctuation +
Pattern_Syntax +
Encoding hex dec (bytes) dec binary
UTF-8 2C 44 44 00101100
UTF-16BE 00 2C 0 44 44 00000000 00101100
UTF-16LE 2C 00 44 0 11264 00101100 00000000
UTF-32BE 00 00 00 2C 0 0 0 44 44 00000000 00000000 00000000 00101100
UTF-32LE 2C 00 00 00 44 0 0 0 738197504 00101100 00000000 00000000 00000000

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