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Chinese characters can be written horizontally or vertically. Some punctuation marks adapt to this change in direction: the parentheses, square brackets, square quotation marks, book title marks, ellipsis marks, and dashes all rotate 90° clockwise when used in vertical text. The three underline-like punctuation marks in Chinese (proper noun ...
Modern versions of the Chinese language have two kinds of punctuation marks for indicating proper nouns – the proper name mark [1] / proper noun mark [2] (Simplified Chinese: 专名号; Traditional Chinese: 專名號) and the book title marks [3] / title marks [4] (Simplified Chinese: 书名号; Traditional Chinese: 書名號). The former may ...
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.
Punctuation such as the parentheses, quotation marks, book title marks (Chinese), ellipsis mark, dash, wavy dash (Japanese), proper noun mark (Chinese), wavy book title mark (Chinese), emphasis mark, and chōon mark (Japanese) are all rotated 90 degrees when switching between horizontal and vertical text.
Punctuation used in simplified Chinese shows clear influence from that used in Western scripts, though some marks are particular to Asian languages. For example, there are double and single quotation marks (『 』 and 「 」), and a hollow full stop (。), which is used to separate sentences in an identical manner to a Western full stop.
CJK Symbols and Punctuation is a Unicode block containing symbols and punctuation used for writing the Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages. It also contains one Chinese character . Block
This row contains various punctuation marks used in Chinese, [1] [8] in addition to other symbols. CCCII includes a set of 35 punctuation marks in this row. [ 1 ] EACC includes only 13 characters in this row (shown boxed below).
Iteration marks have been occasionally used for more than two thousand years in China.The example image shows an inscription in bronze script, a variety of formal writing dating to the Zhou dynasty, that ends with "子 𠄠 孫 𠄠 寶用", where the small 𠄠 ("two") is used as iteration marks in the phrase "子子孫孫寶用" ("descendants to use and to treasure").