Punctuation

The apostrophe ( ’ or ' ) character is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets.

The slash is an oblique slanting line.

The caret /ˈkærᵻt/ is an inverted V-shaped grapheme.

(This article is about the family of punctuation marks. For other uses, see Bracket (disambiguation).)("Parenthesis" and "parenthetical" redirect here. For other uses, see parenthesis (disambiguation).) ("( )" redirects here. For the Sigur Rós album, see ( ) (album). For other uses, see ( ) (disambiguation).) A bracket is a tall punctuation mark typically used in matched pairs within text, to set apart or interject other text.

The colon( : ) is a punctuation mark consisting of two equally sized dots centered on the same vertical line.

A dagger, or obelisk, U+2020 † DAGGER (HTML †⧼dot-separator⧽ †), is a typographical symbol or glyph.

Ellipsis (plural ellipses; from the Ancient Greek: ἔλλειψις, élleipsis, "omission" or "falling short") is a series of dots (typically three, such as "…") that usually indicates an intentional omission of a word, sentence, or whole section from a text without altering its original meaning.

The question mark [ ? ] (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism) is a punctuation mark that indicates an interrogative clause or phrase in many languages.

The semicolon or semi-colon (;) is a punctuation mark that separates major sentence elements.

In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph that separates written words.

In typography, a bullet ( • ) is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list.

The prime symbol ( ′ ), double prime symbol ( ″ ), triple prime symbol ( ‴ ), quadruple prime symbol ( ⁗ ) etc.

Inverted question marks (¿) and exclamation marks (Commonwealth English) or exclamation points (American English) (¡) are punctuation marks used to begin interrogative and exclamatory sentences (or clauses), respectively, in written Spanish and sometimes also in languages which have cultural ties with Spanish, such as in older standards of Galician (now it is optional and not recommended) and the Waray language.

Guillemets (/ˈɡɪləmɛt/, or /ɡiːəˈmeɪ/; French: [ɡijmɛ]), also called angle quotes, Latin quotation marks, or French quotation marks, are polylines pointed like arrows (« or »), sometimes forming a complementary set of punctuation marks used as a form of quotation mark.

Chinese punctuation uses a different set of punctuation marks from European languages, although the concept of modern standard punctuation was adapted in the written language during the 20th century from Western punctuation marks.