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English
Noun
punctuation mark (plural punctuation marks)
- Any of various symbols used in writing and printing to indicate pauses, divisions, etc. and to aid the reader in understanding what is written.
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symbol used in writing
- Arabic: عَلَامَة تَرْقِيم f (ʕalāmat tarqīm)
- Armenian: կետադրական նշան (ketadrakan nšan)
- Bashkir: тыныш билдәһе (tınış bildəhe)
- Belarusian: знак прыпы́нку m (znak prypýnku)
- Bulgarian: препина́телен знак m (prepinátelen znak)
- Catalan: signe de puntuació m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 標點符號／标点符号 (biu1 dim2 fu4 hou6-2), 標點／标点 (biu1 dim2), 句讀／句读 (geoi3 dau6)
- Hokkien: 標點符號／标点符号 (piau-tiám hû-hō, phiau-tiám hû-hō), 標點／标点 (zh-min-nan) (piau-tiám, phiau-tiám), 句讀／句读 (zh-min-nan) (kù-tāu)
- Mandarin: 標點符號／标点符号 (zh) (biāodiǎn fúhào), 標點／标点 (zh) (biāodiǎn), 句讀／句读 (zh) (jùdòu)
- Crimean Tatar: toqtav işareti
- Czech: interpunkční znaménko (cs) n
- Danish: tegnsætningstegn n
- Dutch: leesteken (nl) n
- Estonian: kirjavahemärk
- 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)
- Kazakh: тыныс белгісі (tynys belgısı)
- Korean: 구두점(句讀點) (ko) (gudujeom)
- 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
- Romanian: semn de punctuație n
- Russian: знак препина́ния (ru) m (znak prepinánija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: интерпункцијски знак m
- Roman: interpunkcijski znak m
- Slovak: interpunkčné znamienko n
- Slovene: ločilo (sl) n
- Spanish: signo de puntuación m, signo puntuante m
- Swahili: alama ya uakifishaji
- Swedish: interpunktionstecken (sv) n, skiljetecken (sv) n
- Tagalog: bantas, bantas
- Tajik: аломати ист (alomat-i ist)
- Thai: เครื่องหมายวรรคตอน (th) (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-wák-dtɔɔn)
- Turkish: noktalama işareti (tr)
- Ukrainian: розділо́вий знак m (rozdilóvyj znak)
- Vietnamese: dấu chấm câu, dấu chấm (vi)
- Welsh: atalnod m, marc atalnodi m
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See also
Punctuation