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The colon, :, is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots aligned vertically. A colon often precedes an explanation, a list, [1] or a quoted sentence. [2] It is also used between hours and minutes in time, [1] between certain elements in medical journal citations, [3] between chapter and verse in Bible citations, [4] and, in the US, for salutations in business letters and other ...
The second is a link to the article that details that symbol, using its Unicode standard name or common alias. (Holding the mouse pointer on the hyperlink will pop up a summary of the symbol's function.); The third gives symbols listed elsewhere in the table that are similar to it in meaning or appearance, or that may be confused with it;
Ethiopic wordspace (፡), a word divider in Geʽez script; In old Turkic script, a colon-like symbol (U+205A ⁚ TWO DOT PUNCTUATION) is sometimes used as a word separator; Question mark § History, two vertical dots used to indicate a question in fifth century Syriac manuscripts; Two dot punctuation mark, used as an obelism
Pd, dash Common ⸺ TWO-EM DASH U+2E3A: Pd, dash Common ⸻ THREE-EM DASH U+2E3B: Pd, dash Common ⹀ DOUBLE HYPHEN U+2E40: Pd, dash Common 〜 WAVE DASH U+301C: Pd, dash Common 〰 WAVY DASH U+3030: Pd, dash Common ゠ KATAKANA-HIRAGANA DOUBLE HYPHEN U+30A0: Pd, dash Common ︱ PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EM DASH U+FE31: Pd, dash Common ...
The ditto mark is a shorthand sign, used mostly in hand-written text, indicating that the words or figures above it are to be repeated. [1] [2]The mark is made using "a pair of apostrophes"; [1] "a pair of marks " used underneath a word"; [3] the symbol " (quotation mark); [2] [4] or the symbol ” (right double quotation mark).
A with vertical line below: À̩ à̩: A with vertical line below and grave: Á̩ á̩: A with vertical line below and acute: Â̩ â̩: A with vertical line below and circumflex: Ã̩ ã̩: A with vertical line below and tilde: Ā̩ ā̩: A with vertical line below and macron: Ǎ̩ ǎ̩: A with vertical line below and caron: A̩̍ a̩̍
In the 17th century, Sanskrit and Marathi, both written using Devanagari, started using the vertical bar । to end a line of prose and double vertical bars ॥ in verse. Punctuation was not used in Chinese , Japanese , Korean and Vietnamese Chu Nom writing until the adoption of punctuation from the West in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...