All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Japanese punctuation marks"

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Parent categories: Punctuation marks, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Symbols, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication

Total 40 word senses

• v (Punctuation) [Japanese] <3
• w (Punctuation) [Japanese] LOL; an expression of amusement or laughter.
• ・ (Punctuation) [Japanese] used to denote accent phrase boundaries
• ・・・ (Punctuation) [Japanese] Alternative form of …
• (Punctuation) [Japanese]
• ( (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used in ( ).
• ( ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses a regular or traditional pronunciation to kanji (sometimes other types of words, e.g. katakana in parentheses following an English word) that the readers may not necessarily know how to read.
• ( ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used as a plaintext fallback of ruby: encloses an invented reading or a pronunciation borrowed from another language, which follows usually but not necessarily a kanji word, to conveys the word's deeper or second meaning (see 義(ぎ)訓(くん) (gikun)).
• ( ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used to censor vulgar, profane or sensitive words or characters. A formal way to censor words in Japanese is using × or ○ instead. Compare 自主規制 in Japanese and x in Latin alphabet.
• ( ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator.
• ( ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),.
• (ry (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used to abbreviate words or sentences when the rest is implicitly known.
• (ぉ (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used at the end of a statement to riposte it oneself.
• (棒) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used at the end of a phrase to indicate flat or deadpan intonation.
• (笑) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the audience is laughing.
• (笑) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is laughing.
• (震え声) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is speaking with a trembling voice.
• ) (Punctuation) [Japanese] Used in ( ).
• - (Punctuation) [Japanese] A romanization of the ー (long vowel mark).
• .-.-.- (Punctuation) [Japanese] Visual rendering of Morse code for 、 (ideographic comma).
• .-.-.. (Punctuation) [Japanese] Visual rendering of Morse code for 。 (“ideographic full stop”).
• \ (Punctuation) [Japanese] used to denote pitch accent drops
• ~ (Punctuation) [Japanese] Indicating the lengthening of a pronunciation.
• ‥ (Punctuation) [Japanese] An ellipsis comprising two dots.
• …… (Punctuation) [Japanese] ellipsis (…)
• ※ (Punctuation) [Japanese] similar in function to an asterisk or bullet point
• ♪ (Punctuation) [Japanese] An emoticon indicating a singsong tone of voice or playful attitude.
• 、 (Punctuation) [Japanese] comma
• 。 (Punctuation) [Japanese] . (full stop or period, marking the end of a sentence)
• 。。。 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Indicates a pause.
• 〈 〉 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Encloses titles of books.
• 「 」 (Punctuation) [Japanese] In kanji-katakana mixed writing before World War II, encloses 外来語 (gairaigo, “foreign loanwords”) written in katakana to mark them apart from ordinary katakana portions of the text.
• 『 』 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Encloses an embedded quotation.
• 【 】 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Lenticular brackets.
• 〔 〕 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Encloses comments inside quoted text.
• 〜 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.
• 〝 〞 (Punctuation) [Japanese] used for emphasis, or to set off metaphors, neologisms and the like.
• 〝 〟 (Punctuation) [Japanese] used for emphasis, or to set off metaphors, neologisms and the like.
• 〽 (Punctuation) [Japanese] Indicating the start of a part in a song.
• ゠ (Punctuation) [Japanese] used in transcriptions of Western proper names, as a "space" (similar to a middle dot ・), a "hyphen" or an "en dash"; usually substituted by the more accessible fullwidth equal sign

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