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Encyclopedia > Space (punctuation)
Punctuation marks

apostrophe ( ' ) ( )
brackets ( ( ) ) ( [ ] ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
ellipsis ( ) ( ... )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
hyphen ( - ) ( )
interrobang ( )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/solidus ( / )
space ( )
interpunct ( · ) 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. ... An apostrophe An apostrophe (French, from the Greek αποστροφος προσωδια, the accent of elision) ( ’ ) is a punctuation and sometimes diacritic mark in languages written in the Latin alphabet. ... Various brackets in Arial See parenthesis for an account of the rhetorical concept from which the name of the punctuation mark is derived. ... A colon is a punctuation mark, with one dot above another, e. ... A comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark. ... A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which is shorter, and which has quite different uses. ... For the Figure of speech, see Ellipsis (figure of speech). ... An exclamation mark, exclamation point or bang, !, is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feeling. ... 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. ... A hyphen ( -, or ‐ ) is a punctuation mark. ... The interrobang () is a seldom-used, non-standard English-language punctuation mark intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point. ... Opening (inverted) and closing question marks 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. ... For other meanings of the and marks, see below. ... A semicolon ( ; ) is a type of punctuation mark. ... A solidus, oblique or slash, /, is a punctuation mark. ... 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/understrike ( _ )
vertical bar/vertical line/pipe ( | ) 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 conjunction and. The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, which is Latin for and. Its origin is apparent in the... This article refers to the asterisk symbol. ... 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. ... 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 cursive form of ā, an abbreviation of debated origin. ... 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. ... A dagger (†, †, U+2020) is a typographical symbol or glyph. ... This article describes the typographical or mathematical symbol. ... The correct title of this article is #. The substitution or omission of a # sign is due to technical restrictions. ... 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 tilde (~) is a grapheme which has several uses, described below. ... The underscore _ is the character with ASCII value 95. ... Vertical bar, or pipe is the name of the ASCII character at position 124 (decimal). ...

A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic. In computers, a space is represented by a space character. 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. ... Interword separation is the set of symbol or spacing conventions used by the orthography of a script to separate words. ... The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic. ...


Not all languages use spaces between words; the ancient Latin and Greek did not. Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600800 AD. (See interword separation for more on the history.) Traditionally, all CJK languages have no space: modern Chinese and Japanese (except when written with little or no kanji) still do not, but modern Korean uses spaces. This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ... Interword separation is the set of symbol or spacing conventions used by the orthography of a script to separate words. ... CJK is a collective term for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, which comprise the main East Asian languages. ... Japanese writing Kanji 漢字 Kana 仮名 Hiragana 平仮名 Katakana 片仮名 Uses Furigana 振り仮名 Okurigana 送り仮名 Rōmaji ローマ字 Category Kanji ( â–¶(?), literally Han characters) is the name of Chinese characters in the Japanese language. ...


For use of spaces after full stops, exclamation marks, and question marks, see discussion in the article Full stop. 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. ...


Types of spaces

  • Non-breaking space
  • Space character
  • Hard space
  • Hair space — the narrowest of metallic spaces in typesetting or the narrowest space used in typography (Unicode: U+200A)

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Encyclopedia: Space (punctuation) (1254 words)
A dash is a punctuation mark, and is not to be confused with the hyphen, which is shorter, and which has quite different uses.
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.
Punctuation spaces are exactly the same as en-spaces, except that the width of a punctuation space is usually that of a comma or period (it does depend on each font maker to some extent).
Space (punctuation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (162 words)
A space is a punctuation convention for providing interword separation in some scripts, including the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic.
In computers, a space is represented by a space character.
Spaces were not used to separate words until roughly 600–800 AD.
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