enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese...

    wakiten (脇点, "side dot") kurogoma (黒ゴマ, "sesame dot") shirogoma (白ゴマ, "white sesame dot") Adding these dots to the sides of characters (right side in vertical writing, above in horizontal writing) emphasizes the character in question. It is the Japanese equivalent of the use of italics for emphasis in English. ※. 2228.

  3. Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_and_vertical...

    In the standard language ( 표준어; 標準語) of South Korea, punctuation marks are used differently in horizontal and vertical writing. Western punctuation marks are used in horizontal writing and the Japanese punctuation marks are used in vertical writing. However, vertical writing using Western punctuation marks is sometimes found.

  4. Katakana - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana

    In modern Japanese, katakana is most often used for transcription of words from foreign languages or loanwords (other than words historically imported from Chinese), called gairaigo. [ 5] For example, "ice cream" is written アイスクリーム (aisukurīmu). Similarly, katakana is usually used for country names, foreign places, and foreign ...

  5. List of jōyō kanji - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jōyō_kanji

    Although the official document does not specifically designate the characters which this statement applies to, it is likely that it is applicable to the following 14 characters: 淫・葛・僅・煎・詮・嘲・捗・溺・塡・賭・剝・箸・蔽・頰. ^ abcdeThe 5 kanji 餌・遡・遜・謎・餅 use one of the radicals 辶 / 𩙿. As ...

  6. Vertical bar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_bar

    The vertical bar is used as a special character in lightweight markup languages, notably MediaWiki 's Wikitext (in the templates and internal links). In LaTeX text mode, the vertical bar produces an em dash (—). The \textbar command can be used to produce a vertical bar.

  7. 96 Shortcuts for Accents and Symbols: A Cheat Sheet

    www.aol.com/96-shortcuts-accents-symbols-cheat...

    To use the shortcut, turn on NumLock / Fn, and make sure the cursor is flashing where you want the symbol to go. Press and hold the alt key, and then press numbers. You don’t need to press the ...

  8. East Asian typography - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Asian_typography

    Derived systems. Transliteration of Chinese. v. t. e. East Asian typography is the application of typography to the writing systems used for the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese languages. Scripts represented in East Asian typography include Chinese characters, kana, and hangul .

  9. Japanese punctuation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_punctuation

    The comma (読点, tōten) is used in many contexts, principally for marking off separate elements within a sentence. In horizontal writing, the comma is placed at the bottom right of the preceding character. In vertical writing, it is placed immediately below and to the right of the last character, in a separate square if using genkō yōshi.