Japanese word senses marked with topical category "Symbols": list

リーダー (Noun) a leader (a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number)

・ (Punctuation) used to denote accent phrase boundaries

・・・ (Punctuation) Alternative form of …

(Punctuation)

( (Punctuation) Used in ( ).

( ) (Punctuation) 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) 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) 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) Added to the end of a message, with short text inside (the right parenthesis is optional), as a sort of tone indicator.

( ) (Punctuation) Added to the end of a message to indicate a lighthearted or joking tone (the right parenthesis is optional),.

(ry (Punctuation) Used to abbreviate words or sentences when the rest is implicitly known.

(ぉ (Punctuation) Used at the end of a statement to riposte it oneself.

(棒) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate flat or deadpan intonation.

(笑) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the audience is laughing.

(笑) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is laughing.

(震え声) (Punctuation) Used at the end of a phrase to indicate that the speaker is speaking with a trembling voice.

) (Punctuation) Used in ( ).

- (Punctuation) A romanization of the ー (long vowel mark).

.-.-.- (Punctuation) Visual rendering of Morse code for 、 (ideographic comma).

.-.-.. (Punctuation) Visual rendering of Morse code for 。 (“ideographic full stop”).

\ (Punctuation) used to denote pitch accent drops

~ (Punctuation) Indicating the lengthening of a pronunciation.

‥ (Punctuation) An ellipsis comprising two dots.

…… (Punctuation) ellipsis (…)

※ (Punctuation) similar in function to an asterisk or bullet point

◌̂ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called サーカムフレックス (“circumflex”) in Japanese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.

◌̄ (Character) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called マクロン (“macron”) in Japanese, and found on Ā/ā, Ē/ē, Ī/ī, Ō/ō and Ū/ū.

♪ (Punctuation) An emoticon indicating a singsong tone of voice or playful attitude.

、 (Punctuation) comma

。 (Punctuation) . (full stop or period, marking the end of a sentence)

。。。 (Punctuation) Indicates a pause.

〇 (Symbol) Used to write zero in kanji positional notation.

〈〉 (Punctuation) Encloses titles of books.

「」 (Punctuation) 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) Encloses an embedded quotation.

【】 (Punctuation) Lenticular brackets.

〔〕 (Punctuation) Encloses comments inside quoted text.

〜 (Punctuation) Indicates the subtitle of a book, manga, video game, etc.

〝〞 (Punctuation) used for emphasis, or to set off metaphors, neologisms and the like.

〝〟 (Punctuation) used for emphasis, or to set off metaphors, neologisms and the like.

〽 (Punctuation) Indicating the start of a part in a song.

゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).

゛ (Character) The dakuten, which indicates voicing (i.e. ka with a dakuten is pronounced as ga).; It is also sometimes colloquially used to indicate a strained or shouting vocalization.

゜ (Character) The handakuten, which indicates that a kana with an initial of h- should be pronounced with p- (i.e. ha with a handakuten is pronounced as pa). It is also sometimes used with k- kana to indicate ng- (a phoneme that is usually an allophone of /g/).

゠ (Punctuation) 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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