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Punctuation marks

apostrophe ( ' ) ( )
brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
ellipsis ( ) ( ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
hyphen ( - ) ( )
interrobang ( )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/solidus ( / )
space (   )
interpunct ( · ) Jump to: navigation, search Punctuation marks are written symbols that do not correspond to either phonemes (sounds) of a spoken language nor to lexemes (words and phrases) of a written language, but which serve to organize or clarify written language. ... Jump to: navigation, search An apostrophe An apostrophe ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. ... Jump to: navigation, search See parenthesis for an account of the rhetorical concept from which the name of the punctuation mark is derived. ... Jump to: navigation, search A colon is a punctuation mark, with one dot above another, e. ... Jump to: navigation, search A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ... A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which has quite different uses. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ellipsis Έλλειψις (plural: ellipses ελλείψεις, Greek for omission) in linguistics refers to any omitted part of speech that is understood; i. ... Jump to: navigation, search An exclamation mark (also exclamation point, and, rarely, mark of admiration or ecphoneme) is a punctuation mark. ... A full stop or period, also called a full point, is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and several other languages. ... Jump to: navigation, search A hyphen ( -, or ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. ... Jump to: navigation, search The interrobang ( ‽ ) is an English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. ... A question mark An inverted question mark A question mark (or, less commonly, an interrogation point or eroteme) is a punctuation mark that replaces the period at the end of an interrogative sentence. ... Jump to: navigation, search Quotation marks, also called quotes or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. ... Jump to: navigation, search A semicolon ( ; ) is a kind of punctuation mark. ... Jump to: navigation, search A solidus, oblique or slash, /, is a punctuation mark. ... A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic. ... An interpunct is a small dot used for interword separation in ancient Latin script, being perhaps the first consistent visual representation of word boundaries in written language. ...

Other typographer's marks

ampersand ( & )
asterisk ( * )
asterism ( )
at ( @ )
backslash ( )
bullet ( , more )
dagger ( † ‡ )
degrees ( ° )
number sign ( # )
prime ( )
tilde ( ~ )
underscore ( _ )
vertical bar/pipe ( | )
Jump to: navigation, search The roman ampersand on the left is stylised, but the italic one on the right is clearly similar to et. An ampersand (&) is a logogram representing the word logical conjunction and. ... An asterisk (*) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... Jump to: navigation, search A commercial at, @, also called an at symbol, an at sign, or just at, and sometimes mistakenly called an ampersand (& is the ampersand), is a symbolic abbreviation for the word at. ... First introduced in 1960, the backslash, , is a typographical mark (glyph) used chiefly in computing. ... In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list, like below: This is the text of a list item. ... Jump to: navigation, search A dagger (†, †, U+2020) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... In mathematics, a set of symbols is frequently used in mathematical expressions. ... Jump to: navigation, search Number sign is the preferred Unicode name for the glyph or symbol #. The name was chosen from several used in the United States and Canada. ... This article is not about the symbol for the set of prime numbers, â„™. The prime (′, Unicode U+2032, ′) is a symbol with many mathematical uses: A complement in set theory: A′ is the complement of the set A A point related to another (e. ... Jump to: navigation, search The tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses, described below. ... The underscore _ is the character with ASCII value 95. ... Jump to: navigation, search Vertical bar, or pipe is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal). ...

In typography, an asterism is a rare1 symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, used to call attention to a passage or to separate sub-chapters in a book. It is Unicode character U+2042: []. Image File history File links Converted to PNG and made transparent by Fibonacci. ... Typographic work Typography (from the Greek words typos = form and grapho = write) is the art and technique of selecting and arranging type styles, point sizes, line lengths, line leading, character spacing, and word spacing for typeset applications. ... An asterisk (*) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... Chapter has multiple meanings. ... Jump to: navigation, search Unicode is an international standard whose goal is to provide the means by which text of all forms and languages can be encoded for use by computers. ...


It should not be confused with "∴" (Unicode character U+2234), which is made of three dots. This symbol is used as a shorthand form of "therefore." Jump to: navigation, search Shorthand is a general term referring to any abbreviated or symbolic writing method that improves speed of writing or brevity as compared to a standard method of writing the language. ...


The symbol is sometimes inverted: another asterism Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Asterism2. ...


Note 1: The Society for the Preservation of Rare Typographic Symbols has made a large collection of asterisms available for public use. Feel free to use any of the following:


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Asterism | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon (232 words)
Asterism Constellations in general, but more specifically applied to the divisions in the zodiac, which in ancient thought were believed to hold special significance.
Also applied to the lunar mansions or divisions of the ecliptic, each being 13 1/2 degrees or 1/27 of 360 degrees, representing approximately the average daily progress of the moon in ecliptic longitude.
The original number of lunar asterisms is said to have been 27, but another was added, represented on the lunar zodiac by a smaller division.
Asterism (typography) Information (130 words)
In typography, an asterism is a rare symbol consisting of three asterisks placed in a triangle, used to call attention to a passage or to separate sub-chapters in a book.
An asterism or its analogue may be used in conjunction with the extra space to mark a smaller subdivision than a subchapter.
It should not be confused with ∴ (Unicode character U+2234), which is made of three dots.
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