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Punctuation [Chinese]

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  1. used in ( )
    Sense id: en-(-zh-punct-BJpsQRjY
  2. (Internet slang, by extension) 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. Tags: Internet, broadly Categories (topical): Chinese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(-zh-punct-kJ-1UfX- Disambiguation of Chinese punctuation marks: 3 97 Categories (other): Chinese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Chinese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Chinese entries with incorrect language header: 4 96

Punctuation [Japanese]

Head templates: {{head|ja|punctuation mark}} (
  1. Used in ( ). Categories (topical): Japanese punctuation marks
    Sense id: en-(-ja-punct-0WsdRPV7 Categories (other): Japanese entries with incorrect language header

Punctuation [Translingual]

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  1. Represents a mouth vertically aligned, in order to form emoticons.
    Sense id: en-(-mul-punct-plYDwClE Categories (other): Translingual entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Translingual entries with incorrect language header: 53 3 45
  2. Used in ( ).
    Sense id: en-(-mul-punct-0WsdRPV7

Symbol [Translingual]

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  1. (mathematics) Denotes an open endpoint of an interval. Categories (topical): Mathematics, Translingual punctuation marks Synonyms: ]
    Sense id: en-(-mul-symbol-tHmMDtrz Disambiguation of Translingual punctuation marks: 33 3 64 Categories (other): Translingual entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Translingual entries with incorrect language header: 53 3 45 Topics: mathematics, sciences Related terms: to [Lojban], apostrophe (alt: '; ’), curly brackets, brace (alt: { }) [US], square bracket, bracket (alt: [ ]) [US], colon (alt: :), comma (alt: ,), dash (alt: ‒; –; —; ―), ellipsis (alt: ), exclamation mark (alt: !), fraction slash (alt: ), guillemet (alt: « »; ‹ ›), hyphen (alt: -; ‐), interpunct (alt: ·), interrobang (alt: ) [rare], bracket, parentheses (US, Canada) (alt: ( )), full stop, period (alt: .) [Canada, US], question mark (alt: ?), quotation marks (alt: ‘ ’ ‚; „) [formal], quotation marks (alt: "; ') [informal] [computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences], semicolon (alt: ;), slash, stroke (alt: /) [UK], space (alt: ] [)

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