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A comma is a punctuation mark that varies in appearance across different languages and typefaces, sometimes appearing as a small curved or straight line tilted from vertical, and other times as a tiny filled-in shape sitting on the baseline. Despite these visual differences, the comma serves as a consistent punctuation tool across writing systems, though its exact appearance may resemble an apostrophe or single quotation mark depending on the typeface used.
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- Punctuation mark.mark
- ,
- Punctuation mark.variant1
- 、
- Punctuation mark.caption1
- Ideographic comma (CJK)
- Punctuation mark.variant2
- ،
- Punctuation mark.caption2
- Arabic comma
- Punctuation mark.variant3
- ◌̦
- Punctuation mark.caption3
- combining comma below
- Diacritic.char
- ʻ ʽ
- Diacritic.name
- Modifier comma
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- punctuation mark
- Image
- Comma.svg
- Has use
- decimal separator
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Commas
- Unicode character
- ,
- code
- --..--
- different from
- coma
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Article · Nederlands
De komma is een leesteken dat wordt gebruikt als scheidingsteken tussen delen van een zin en tussen items in een lijst en als decimaalteken in een getal.
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