All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Chinese punctuation marks"
Parent categories: Punctuation marks, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Symbols, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 24 word senses
- (Punctuation) [Chinese] Used to emphasize words in situations where markup is unavailable.
- ' (Punctuation) [Chinese] sed to mark an initial a, e, or o in a multisyllabic Pinyin word, to prevent confusion (隔音符號/隔音符号 (géyīn fúhào))
- ( (Punctuation) [Chinese] Added to the end of a message, either left parenthesis only or both, used in place of ellipses …… (which can be read as indecisiveness) to imply an abrupt and intentional end to an incomplete sentence.
- ( ) (Punctuation) [Chinese] Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. Compare x in Latin alphabet. A formal way to censor words in Chinese is using × instead.
- ) (Punctuation) [Chinese] used in ( )
- `num` `num` (Punctuation) [Chinese] Wraps a piece of text, indicating a hashtag on social media.
- ~ (Punctuation) [Chinese] Indicating the lengthening of a pronunciation.
- « » (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses book, film or album titles.
- · (Punctuation) [Chinese] Separates first and last names in personal names transcribed into Chinese characters.
- —— (Punctuation) [Chinese] Chinese em dash (—). It occupies the space of two characters in the center of the line. It is called 破折號/破折号 (pòzhéhào).
- … (Punctuation) [Chinese] See …….
- …… (Punctuation) [Chinese] Ellipsis.; Indicates there is implied meaning.
- ………… (Punctuation) [Chinese] Ellipsis indicating subsequent paragraphs in a quotation are omitted.
- ⟨ ⟩ (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses titles of books when embedded within a book title.
- ⟨ ⟩ (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses titles of sections of a book.
- 、 (Punctuation) [Chinese] (comma in a list)
- 。 (Punctuation) [Chinese] . (full stop or period, marking the end of a sentence)
- 。。。 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Indicates speechlessness or helplessness.
- 《 》 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses titles of books.
- 《 》 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses a text expressing something that is complained to be so "skilled" of the doer that can be written into a book named so. And derivedly, encloses a thing said by one which is thought to be ridiculous.
- 「 」 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses a quotation. Only used in traditional Chinese.
- 『 』 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses a quotation, especially within another quotation. Equivalent to ‘ ’ in English. Only used in traditional Chinese.
- 【 】 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Encloses a heading or a text for emphasis.
- 𖿢 (Punctuation) [Chinese] Mark, called "hook" or "tadpole" mark, or 鉤識號/钩识号 in Chinese that denotes pause or break in the text. (See usage notes)
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