Punctuation
Japanese punctuation marks (Yakumono) are different from Western ones. They are full-width characters.
。
Kuten (Period)
Used at the end of sentences. A small circle, not a dot.
Input: "." usually converts to "。"
、
Touten (Comma)
Used to separate clauses. Slants to the right.
Input: "," usually converts to "、"
「」
Kagi Kakko
Quotation marks. Used for speech or quoting text.
「こんにちは」と彼は言った。
・
Nakaguro
Middle dot. Used to list items or separate foreign names.
ロミオ・アンド・ジュリエット
Vertical Writing (Tategaki)
Traditionally, Japanese is written vertically from right to left.
- Books (Novels)
- Newspapers
- Greeting Cards (Nengajo)
Websites and modern documents usually use horizontal (Yokogaki) left-to-right style.
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