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ideographic comma

ideographic comma noun: 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.

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.

Forms of ideographic comma

pluralideographic commas

Questions about ideographic comma

What does ideographic comma mean?
Ideographic comma means 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.
What part of speech is ideographic comma?
Ideographic comma is a noun.
What is the plural of ideographic comma?
The plural of ideographic comma is ideographic commas.

Words near ideographic comma in the dictionary

  1. ideogrammes
  2. ideogrammic
  3. ideograms
  4. ideograph
  5. ideographic
  6. ideographic comma
  7. ideographic commas
  8. ideographic description sequence
  9. ideographic description sequences
  10. ideographic full stop
  11. ideographic full stops

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