semicolon

See also: semi-colon

Contents

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• semi-colon

EtymologyEdit

From semi- +‎ colon.

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌsemiˈkəʊlən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsemikoʊlən/

NounEdit

semicolon (plural semicolons or semicola)

1. The punctuation mark ';' .

   A semicolon is followed by an initial lower-case letter (unless for proper nouns).

See alsoEdit

Punctuation

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

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

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

• question mark ( ? )
• quotation marks (formal, UK) ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
• quotation marks (informal, US, Computing) ( " ) ( ' )

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

TranslationsEdit

punctuation mark ';'

• Arabic: ؛ (;), فَاصِلَة مَنْقُوطَة‏‎ f (fāṣila manqūṭa)
• Armenian: կետ-ստորակետ (ket-storaket)
• Asturian: puntu y coma m
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: punt i coma m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分號 (zh), 分号 (zh) (fēnhào), ；

• Cornish: poynt ha komma m
• Czech: středník (cs) m
• Danish: semikolon (da) n
• Dutch: puntkomma (nl) f, n, kommapunt (nl) m
• Esperanto: punktokomo
• Estonian: semikoolon
• Faroese: semikolon n
• Finnish: puolipiste (fi)
• French: point-virgule (fr) m
• Galician: punto e coma m
• Georgian: წერტილმძიმე (c̣erṭilmʒime)
• German: Strichpunkt (de) m, Semikolon (de) n
• Greek: άνω τελεία (el) f (áno teleía) (áno teleía), (in relevance to the Greek language) ερωτηματικό (el) n (erotimatikó) (erotimatikó)
• Hebrew: נקודה ופסיק‏‎ (he)
• Hungarian: pontosvessző (hu)
• Interlingua: puncto e virgula
• Irish: leathstad m, leathstadanna m pl

• Italian: punto e virgola (it) m
• Japanese: セミコロン (semikoron), ； (ja)
• Kazakh: нүктелі үтір (nükteli ütir)
• Latvian: semikols m
• Lithuanian: kabliataškis m
• Macedonian: точка-запирка f (tóčka-zápirka)
• Mongolian: цэгтэй таслал (tsegtej taslal)
• Norwegian: semikolon c
• Pashto: ؛‏‎
• Persian: ؛‏‎, نقطه‌ویرگول‏‎ (fa) (noqte-virgul)
• Polish: średnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: ponto e vírgula (pt), ponto-e-vírgula m
• Romanian: punct și virgulă (ro)
• Russian: то́чка с запято́й (ru) f (tóčka s zapjatój)
• Scottish Gaelic: leth-chòilean m
• Slovak: bodkočiarka f
• Slovene: podpičje (sl) n
• Spanish: punto y coma m
• Swahili: alama ya nuktamkato (sw)
• Swedish: semikolon (sv) c
• Tagalog: tuldok-kuwit
• Turkish: noktalı virgül (tr)
• Urdu: ؛‏‎
• Welsh: hanner colon m, hanner colonau m pl

See alsoEdit

• ; Greek question mark

AnagramsEdit

• cosmoline