Comma,

U+002C

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.

This text is also available in: Русский;

Synonyms

decimal separator.

Unicode Name	Comma
Unicode Number
Entity	,
Plane	0: Basic Multilingual Plane
Unicode Block	Basic Latin
Unicode Subblock	ASCII punctuation
Unicode Version	1.1 (1993)
Alt Code	Alt 44

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