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Guillemets, also called angle quotes, are line segments, pointed as if arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark. The symbol at either end — « or » — is a guillemet (pronounced [gijmɛ] in French). They are used in a number of languages to indicate speech. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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Quotation marks or inverted commas (also called quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. ...
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v • d • e Punctuation The term punctuation has two different linguistic meanings: in general, the act and the effect of punctuating, i. ...
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For technical reasons, :) and some similar combinations starting with : redirect here. ...
The colon (:) is a punctuation mark, visually consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line. ...
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an exclamation mark An exclamation mark, exclamation point or bang, !, is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feeling. ...
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The question mark(?) (also known as an interrogation point, query,[1] or eroteme) is a punctuation mark that replaces the full stop at the end of an interrogative sentence. ...
Quotation marks or inverted commas (also called quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. ...
A semicolon ( ; ) is a punctuation mark. ...
Due to technical limitations, /. redirects here. ...
A solidus, oblique or slash, /, is a punctuation mark. ...
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interpunct ( · )
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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. ...
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asterisk ( * )
at ( @ )
backslash ( )
bullet ( • )
caret ( ^ )
currency ( ¤ ) ¢, $, €, £, ¥, ₩, ₪
dagger/obelisk ( † ) ( ‡ )
degree ( ° )
inverted exclamation point ( ¡ )
inverted question mark ( ¿ )
number sign ( # )
numero sign ( № )
percent and related signs
( %, ‰, ‱ )
pilcrow ( ¶ )
prime ( ′ )
section sign ( § )
tilde/swung dash ( ~ )
umlaut/diaeresis ( ¨ )
underscore/understrike ( _ )
vertical/pipe/broken bar ( |, ¦ )
A specimen of roman typefaces by William Caslon Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. ...
An ampersand (&), also commonly called an and sign is a logogram representing the conjunction and. ...
An asterisk (*), is a typographical symbol or glyph. ...
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First introduced in 1960 by Bob Bemer , 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, also known as the point of a bullet: This is the text of a list item. ...
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A two cent euro coin A US penny In currency, the cent is a monetary unit that equals th of the basic unit of value. ...
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The euro (€; ISO 4217 code EUR) is the currency of twelve of the twenty-five nations that form the European Union (and four outside it, as well as Montenegro and Kosovo), which form the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). ...
The Pound sign (£) is the symbol for Pound sterling, the currency of the United Kingdom, and some other currencies of the same name in other countries. ...
¥ ¥9 Chinese price sticker ¥ is a currency sign used for the following currencies: Chinese yuan (CNY) Japanese yen (JPY) The base unit of the two currencies above share the same Chinese character (圓/元/円), pronounced yuan in Mandarin Chinese and en in Standard Japanese. ...
â‚© is a currency sign that is used for the following currencies: North Korean won South Korean won Woolong, a fictional currency in Cowboy Bebop Category: ...
₪ ₪ is a currency sign that is used for the Israeli new sheqel currency which replaced the Israeli sheqel in 1985. ...
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The inverted question mark and exclamation point are used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences, respectively, in written Spanish. ...
The inverted question mark and exclamation point are used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences, respectively, in written Spanish. ...
Number sign is one name for the symbol #, and is the preferred Unicode name for the codepoint represented by that glyph. ...
The Numero sign (U+2116) or Number sign is used in many languages to indicate ordinal numbering, especially in names and titles, rather than the US-derived number sign, #. For example, instead of Number 4 Privet Drive or #4 Privet Drive, one could write â„– 4 Privet Drive. The symbol is...
The percent sign (%) is the symbol used to indicate a percentage (that the preceding number is divided by one hundred). ...
A pilcrow from the font Gentium, designed by J. Victor Gaultney, 2002. ...
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. ...
The section sign (§; Unicode U+00A7, HTML entity §) is a typographical character used mainly to refer to a particular section of a document, such as a legal code. ...
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The umlaut mark (or simply umlaut) and the trema or diaeresis mark (or simply diaeresis) are two diacritics consisting of a pair of dots placed over a letter. ...
The underscore _ is the character with ASCII value 95. ...
Vertical bar, verti-bar, vertical line, divider line, or pipe is the name of the character (|). Broken bar (¦) is a separate character. ...
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index/fist ( ☞ )
therefore sign ( ∴ )
lozenge ( ◊ )
interrobang ( ‽ )
irony mark ( ؟ )
reference mark ( ※ )
sarcasm mark (+ +)
A specimen of roman typefaces by William Caslon Typography is the art and techniques of type design, modifying type glyphs, and arranging type. ...
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. ...
The symbol ☞ is a rare punctuation mark, called an index or fist. ...
In a mathematical proof, the therefore sign is a symbol that is sometimes placed before a logical consequence, such as the conclusion of a syllogism. ...
A lozenge (â—Š) is a form of rhombus. ...
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The Irony mark (؟) (French: point d’ironie) is a punctuation mark that purports to indicate that a sentence should be understood at a second level. ...
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A sarcasm mark, also called a sarcasm point, helps the reader identify certain messages as being derogatory or ironic. ...
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Main article: Quotation mark, non-English usage Used pointing outwards («like this») to indicate speech in these languages: Quotation marks, also called quotes, speech marks or inverted commas, are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, or a phrase. ...
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Catalan IPA: (català IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia , and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...
Franco-Provençal (Francoprovençal) or Arpitan (in vernacular: patouès) (in Italian: francoprovenzale, provenzale alpina, arpitano, patois; French: francoprovençal, arpitan, patois) is a Romance language with several dialects in a linguistic sub-group separate from Langue dOïl and Langue dOc. ...
Galician (Galician: galego, IPA: ) is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community with the constitutional status of historic nationality, located in northwestern Spain and small bordering zones in neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castilla y León. ...
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The Swiss Confederation has four official languages: German, French, Italian, and Romansh (Rhaeto-Romance), in order by number of speakers. ...
Korean can mean: Of or pertaining to Korea, South Korea, or North Korea Koreans - Korean people Korean Language See also Culture of Korea Category: ...
Used pointing right (»like this») to indicate speech in these languages: Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...
Direction A guillemet is sometimes used to indicate direction, for example: - fast forward button on a media player, or fast rewind indicated by the complementary guillemet
- a chevron on road signage to show road direction, or multiple chevrons pointing in the same direction for emphasis
- as an alternative to an ellipsis in a document, for example to indicate additional content. The guillemet is balanced in the spine height of the line for most fonts, so it is more visible than an ellipsis.
Other uses Guillemets are used in Chinese to indicate the title of a book. For instance, «哈利波特与火焰杯» is Chinese for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Etymology The word is a diminutive of the French name Guillaume (whose equivalent in English is William), after the French printer and punchcutter Guillaume le Bé (1525–1598).[1][2] Some languages derive their word for guillemets analogously; for example, the Irish term is Liamóg, from Liam 'William' and a diminutive suffix.
Guillemets in computing
Typing "«" and "»" on computers For Windows user, type "«" by holding Alt + 0171 and "»" by holding Alt + 0187.
For Macintosh user, type "«" as Option-Backslash and "»" as Option-Shift-Backslash. (This applies to all English-language keyboard layouts supplied with the operating system, e.g. "Australian", "British", "Canadian", "U.S." and "U.S. Extended". Other language layouts may differ.)
Guillemets are often produced with double inequality characters (<< or >>) or double chevrons (〈〈 or 〉〉) particularly on computers with operating systems or keyboards that do not have support for the actual characters. This article is about inequalities in mathematics. ...
For technical reasons, :) and some similar combinations starting with : redirect here. ...
In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations. ...
The 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard layout evolved from the standard typewriter keyboard with extra keys special to computing. ...
Terminology In Unicode, the « character is called "left-pointing double angle quotation mark", and exists at code point U+00AB (HTML entity «), whilst the » character is named "right-pointing double angle quotation mark", and is located at code point U+00BB (HTML entity »). Despite their names, the characters are mirrored when used in right-to-left contexts. The Unicode Standard, Version 5. ...
The international standard ISO/IEC 10646 defines the Universal Character Set (UCS) as a character encoding. ...
HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ...
HTML has been in use since 1991 (note that the W3C international standard is now XHTML), but the first standardized version with a reasonably complete treatment of international characters was version 4. ...
UML Guillemets are used in Unified Modeling Language to indicate a stereotype of a standard element. In the field of software engineering, the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a standardized specification language for object modeling. ...
In the Unified Modeling Language, a stereotype is a name denoted with guillemets (not double angle brackets) that conveys a high level category, type, or meaning of an item. ...
Adobe Systems In Adobe Systems font software, their file format specifications, and in all fonts derived from these that contain the characters, the word is incorrectly spelled guillemot (a malapropism: the guillemots are a type of auk) in the names of the two glyphs "guillemotleft" and "guillemotright". Adobe acknowledges the error but says that the incorrect names are the ones actually used in existing fonts and software;[3] presumably, it is too late to change it, as it would break existing software. Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell...
The Guillemots are seabirds in the auk family. ...
This article or section seems to contain too many examples (or examples of poor quality) for an encyclopedia entry. ...
Genera Uria Alle Alca Pinguinus Synthliboramphus Cepphus Brachyramphus Ptychoramphus Aethia Cerorhinca Fratercula Extinct genera, see Systematics Auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. ...
See also For technical reasons, :) and some similar combinations starting with : redirect here. ...
A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped pattern. ...
The 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard layout evolved from the standard typewriter keyboard with extra keys special to computing. ...
Quotation marks or inverted commas (also called quotes and speech marks) are punctuation marks used in pairs to set off speech, a quotation, a phrase or a word. ...
References - ^ http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/punc.htm
- ^ http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/u+00ab
- ^ Adobe Systems Inc., PostScript Language Reference 3rd edition, Addison Wesley 1999. ISBN 0-201-37922-8. Character set endnote 3, page 783.
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