ideographic comma

English

Noun

ideographic comma (plural ideographic commas)

1. A punctuation mark, ⟨、⟩, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Chinese-derived ideographs, and which has a similar function to the comma in languages that use the Roman alphabet.

   Hyponym: dun comma

Translations

comma

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 頓號／顿号 (zh) (dùnhào)

• Japanese: 読点 (ja) (tōten, literally “clause mark”)