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See also: ؛ [U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON]
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Translingual
Etymology
The Italian printer Aldus Manutius established the practice of using the semicolon mark to separate words of opposed meaning, and to indicate interdependent statements. The earliest, general use of the semicolon in English was in 1591.
Punctuation mark
; (English name semicolon)
- Indicates a pause longer than the comma and shorter than a period/full stop.
- Separates items in a list where the list items themselves include commas.
- Guests at the summit included David Cameron, the British Prime Minister; Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor; and François Hollande, the French President.
- Represents two eyes vertically aligned, the lower one winking, in order to form emoticons.
- (programming) Marks the end of a statement in some programming languages.
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?>
- (speech therapy) Used to separate the year and month of a child's age.
Usage notes
- In French, all composite symbols (i.e. ;, :, ! and ?) should be preceded by a non-breaking space, except ! and ? in Canadian French, where no preceding space is needed.
- In Greek, this symbol is a question mark, and the role of semicolon is fulfilled by U+0387 ·, the άνω τελεία (áno teleía, “upper stop”).
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:;.
Derived terms
See also
- apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ )
- curly brackets or braces (US) ( { } )
- square brackets or brackets (US) ( [ ] )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- dashes ( ‒ ) ( – ) ( — ) ( ― )
- ellipsis ( … )
- exclamation mark ( ! )
- fraction slash ( ⁄ )
- guillemets ( « » ) ( ‹ › )
- hyphen ( - ) ( ‐ )
- interpunct ( · )
- interrobang (rare) ( ‽ )
- brackets or parentheses (US, Canada) ( ( ) )
- full stop or period (US, Canada) ( . )
- question mark ( ? )
- quotation marks (formal) ( ‘ ’ ‚ ) ( “ ” „ )
- quotation marks (informal, computing) ( " ) ( ' )
- semicolon ( ; )
- slash or stroke (UK) ( / )
- space ( ] [ )
Ancient Greek
Greek
Punctuation mark
;
Usage notes
- While there is a specific character for solely the Greek question mark (; – U+037E), the regular semicolon (U+003B) is preferred.
- In Greek, a semicolon is represented by · (U+0387), named the άνω τελεία (áno teleía, “upper stop”).
Lhao Vo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔ/
Usage notes
The punctuation mark is separated from the preceding word by a space.
Low tone is written ⟨꞉⟩ with any other final.
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