Punctuation Marks
List of Characters
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Full Stop.
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Devanagari Danda।
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Armenian Full Stop։
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Ideographic Full Stop。
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Arabic Full Stop۔
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Coptic Old Nubian Full Stop⳹
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Syriac Supralinear Full Stop܁
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Ethiopic Full Stop።
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Canadian Syllabics Full Stop᙮
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Mongolian Full Stop᠃
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Coptic Full Stop⳾
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Lisu Punctuation Full Stop꓿
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Vai Full Stop꘎
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Bamum Full Stop꛳
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Samaritan Punctuation Sof Mashfaat࠽
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Balinese Carik Pareren᭟
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Comma,
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Arabic Comma،
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Ideographic Comma、
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Armenian Comma՝
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Nko Comma߸
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Ethiopic Comma፣
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Mongolian Manchu Comma᠈
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Lisu Punctuation Comma꓾
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Vai Comma꘍
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Bamum Comma꛵
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Balinese Carik Siki᭞
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Double Question Mark⁇
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Exclamation Question Mark
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Question Exclamation Mark⁈
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Interrobang‽
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Red Exclamation Mark
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Double Exclamation Mark
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Inverted Interrobang⸘
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Question Mark?
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Greek Question Mark;
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Inverted Question Mark¿
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Arabic Question Mark؟
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Armenian Question Mark՞
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Syriac Colon Skewed Left܆
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Ethiopic Question Mark፧
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Coptic Old Nubian Direct Question Mark⳺
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Coptic Old Nubian Indirect Question Mark⳻
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Vai Question Mark꘏
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Bamum Question Mark꛷
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Chakma Question Mark𑅃
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Meetei Mayek Ahang Khudam꫱
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Exclamation Mark!
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Inverted Exclamation Mark¡
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Nko Exclamation Mark߹
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Limbu Exclamation Mark᥄
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Middle Dot·
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Ugaritic Word Divider𐎟
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Old Persian Word Divider𐏐
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Cuneiform Punctuation Sign Old Assyrian Word Divider𒑰
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Ethiopic Wordspace፡
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Ogham Space Mark
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Phoenician Word Separator𐤟
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Samaritan Punctuation Nequdaa࠰
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Em Dash—
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En Dash–
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Figure Dash‒
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Hyphen‐
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Hyphen Bullet⁃
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Small Hyphen-Minus﹣
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Fullwidth Hyphen-Minus－
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Armenian Hyphen֊
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Mongolian Todo Soft Hyphen᠆
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Semicolon;
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Greek Ano Teleia·
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Arabic Semicolon؛
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Ethiopic Semicolon፤
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Bamum Semicolon꛶
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One Dot Leader․
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Colon:
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Ethiopic Colon፥
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Bamum Colon꛴
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Balinese Carik Pamungkah᭝
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Horizontal Ellipsis…
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Presentation Form for Vertical Horizontal Ellipsis︙
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Lao Ellipsisຯ
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Left-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark«
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Single Left-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark‹
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Right-Pointing Double Angle Quotation Mark»
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Single Right-Pointing Angle Quotation Mark›
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Double Low-9 Quotation Mark„
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Single Low-9 Quotation Mark‚
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Left Double Quotation Mark“
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Double High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark‟
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Left Single Quotation Mark‘
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Single High-Reversed-9 Quotation Mark‛
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Right Double Quotation Mark”
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Right Single Quotation Mark’
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Reverse Solidus\
Punctuation marks are the symbols of written language that are used for a more accurate reproduction of spoken language to the letter. They can denote intonation, indicate the connection between words and highlight parts of the text.
The list of punctuation marks:
Classification of punctuation marks by purpose:
- Separation of the completed meaning of fragments of the texts – sentences, paragraphs. They also reflect intonation.
- Designation of the relationship between parts of the same sentence.
- Selection of quotes.
- Designation of emotional attitude to the different parts of one sentence — words and phrases.
- Marking of missing text fragments.
- Symbols, which mean abbreviations of words.
In ancient times punctuation marks were almost never used. Then the word “punctuation” was related to the oratory. The founders of the modern system were the grammars who lived in Alexandria in the III – I centuries BC (Aristophanes of Byzantium, Dionysius Thrax, Aristarchus). At first the full stop was only used, and it was placed on top, below and in the middle of the line. A couple of centuries later a few more signs appeared and in the second century Nikanor had already eight signs. However, no specific rules were invented, each author put punctuation marks as he wanted. It lasted until the fifteenth century, when the printer Aldus Manuzio standardized punctuation. Since then the number of punctuation marks and the rules of their use have not changed dramatically.
Punctuation marks are not part of the alphabets. In consequence of the spread of European punctuation in the XX century they are in general similar to many modern world writings — Indian, Jewish, Arabic, Latin and Cyrillic.
It should be kept in mind that with time graphic representation of signs and their meaning changed. This page presents not only modern, but also historical images. In addition, some marks can be used as diacritic ones (modify or complement the letter). In this case they do not refer to punctuation marks.
