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An interpunct ·, also known as an interpoint, [1] middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin.
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
Cohesion (linguistics) – Grammatical and lexical linking in text; Dinkus – Typographic symbol ( * * * ) – a row of three dots (usually widely separated) alone in the middle of a gap between two paragraphs, to indicate a sub-chapter. An em dash — is sometimes used instead of an ellipsis, especially in written dialogue.
Small capital K with dot above: Ŀ ŀ: L with middle dot: Catalan 𝼦 L with mid-height left hook: Used by the British and Foreign Bible Society in the early 20th century for romanization of the Malayalam language. [44] L̀ l̀: L with grave: Ntcham Ĺ ĺ: L with acute: Slovak, Ntcham L̂ l̂: L with circumflex: Accented Latvian, ISO 9 L̃ l̃ ...
However, not infrequently in inscriptions a vertical line, and in manuscripts a single (·), double (:), or triple (⫶) interpunct (dot) was used to divide words. This practice was found in Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and continues today with Ethiopic, though there whitespace is gaining ground.
In Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, in addition to the middle dot as a letter, centred dot diacritic, and dot above diacritic, there also is a two-dot diacritic in the Naskapi language representing /_w_V/ which depending on the placement on the specific Syllabic letter may resemble a colon when placed vertically, diaeresis when placed ...
ONE DOT OVER TWO DOTS PUNCTUATION U+2E2B: Po, other Common ⸬ SQUARED FOUR DOT PUNCTUATION U+2E2C: Po, other Common ⸭ FIVE DOT MARK U+2E2D: Po, other Common ⸮ REVERSED QUESTION MARK U+2E2E: Po, other Common ⸰ RING POINT U+2E30: Po, other Common ⸱ WORD SEPARATOR MIDDLE DOT U+2E31: Po, other Common ⸲ TURNED COMMA U+2E32: Po, other ...
Among the fonts in widespread use, [6] [7] full implementation is provided by Segoe UI Symbol and significant partial implementation of this range is provided by Arial Unicode MS and Lucida Sans Unicode, which include coverage for 83% (80 out of 96) and 82% (79 out of 96) of the symbols, respectively.