semicolon

See also: semi-colon

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EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

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 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 m
• Japanese: セミコロン ‎(semikoron), ； (ja)
• Kazakh: нүктелі үтір ‎(nükteli ütir)
• Latvian: semikols m
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: точка-запирка f ‎(tóčka-zápirka)
• Norwegian: semikolon c
• Pashto: ؛
• Persian: ؛, نقطه‌ویرگول ‎(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