punctuation mark

English

Noun

punctuation mark (plural punctuation marks)

1. Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc. and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.

Hyponyms

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Translations

symbol used in writing

• Armenian: կետադրական նշան (ketadrakan nšan)
• Bashkir: тыныш билдәһе (tïnïš bildähe)
• Catalan: signe de puntuació m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 標點符號, 标点符号 (biu¹ dim² fu⁴ hou^6-2), 標點, 标点 (biu¹ dim²), 句讀, 句读 (geoi³ dau⁶)

  Mandarin: 標點符號 (zh), 标点符号 (zh) (biāodiǎn fúhào), 標點 (zh), 标点 (zh) (biāodiǎn), 句讀 (zh), 句读 (zh) (jùdòu)

  Min Nan: 標點符號, 标点符号 (piau-tiám hû-hō, phiau-tiám hû-hō), 標點 (zh-min-nan), 标点 (piau-tiám, phiau-tiám), 句讀 (zh-min-nan), 句读 (kù-tāu)

• Crimean Tatar: toqtav işareti
• Czech: interpunkční znaménko n
• Dutch: leesteken (nl) n
• Finnish: välimerkki (fi)
• French: signe de ponctuation (fr) m
• Galician: signo de puntuación
• German: Satzzeichen (de) n
• Greek: σημείο στίξης (el) n (simeío stíxis), σημείο στίξεως (el) n (simeío stíxeos)

• Hungarian: írásjel (hu)
• Italian: segno d'interpunzione m, segno di interpunzione (it) m, segno di punteggiatura m
• Japanese: 句読点 (ja) (くとうてん, kutōten)
• Latvian: pieturzīme f
• Macedonian: интерпункциски знак m (interpunkciski znak), знак за интерпункција m (znak za interpunkcija)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skilletegn n

• Persian: نشانهٔ سجاوندی‎ (nešâne-ye sajâvandi)
• Polish: znak interpunkcyjny (pl) m
• Portuguese: sinal de pontuação m
• Russian: знак препина́ния (ru) m (znak prepinánija)
• Spanish: signo de puntuación m
• Tagalog: bantas, bantas
• Thai: เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-wák-dtɔɔn)
• Ukrainian: розділовий знак m (rozdilovyj znak)
• Welsh: atalnod m, marc atalnodi m

See also

Punctuation

• apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
• braces ( { } )
• brackets ( [ ] )
• colon ( : )
• comma ( , )

• dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
• ellipsis ( … )
• exclamation mark ( ! )
• fraction slash ( ⁄ )
• guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )

• hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
• interpunct ( · )
• interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
• parentheses ( ( ) )
• period (US) or full stop (Britain) ( . )

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
• quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )

• semicolon ( ; )
• slash (US) or stroke (Britain) ( / )
• space (   )