Chinese Punctuation

Chinese Punctuation
Punctuation；標點符號 [标点符号]；biāo diǎn fú hào

Some memo
There are some small difference between usage of Taiwan and mainland China.
It doesn't influence much, so I don't list out the difference here.


Audio of example sentences and words

There are no different usage between Chinese and English below：
「，」 Comma；逗號；dòu hào

「？」 Question Mark；問[问]號；wèn hào 

「！」 Exclamation Mark；感嘆[叹]號；gǎn tàn hào

「；」Semicolon；分號；fēn hào 

「：」 Colon；冒號；mào hào  

「()」Parentheses；括號；kuò hào

There are some different usages between Chinese and English below：
「。」Full stop；句點[点]；jù diǎn
The shape is different with English " . ".

「」Quotation marks；引號；yǐn hào
The shape is different with English " ".

「、」Enumeration comma；頓[頓]號；dùn hào
To separate the options, there is no mark in the final option.

e.g. A, B, and C
       A、B 和 C
       A、B hàn C

「 ‧ 」 Middle dot；音界號；yīn jiè hào
To separate characters in non-Chinese personal names.
e.g. Donald John Trump
      唐納·約翰·川普
          纳,约
      táng nà·yuē hàn·chuān pǔ

＊ Taiwan and mainland China translate foreign names to Chinese instead of keeping the original name.
     It includes people's names, country names, songs, movies, and books.
     Chinese users know the name of the famous persons, songs, books,and movie in Chinese, but they don't know the name in original language. 
     It causes that Chinese users are hard to chat with another language users with these topics.
＊ People choose the similar pronunciation in Chinese to translate foreign names.
＊ Taiwan and mainland China use the different rule to translate names.

「 －－」Dash；破折號；pò zhé hào
In Chinese, the dash occupies the space of two characters in the center of the line. There should be no breaking in the line.

「 ……」Ellipsis ；刪節[删节]號；shān jié hào
In Chinese, the ellipsis is written with six dots (not three) occupying the same space as two characters in the center of a line.

Here are the difference table table of punctuation marks.

「___」Proper name mark；書[书]名號；shū míng hào
In Chinese, the proper name mark is written under name of people, books, magazines, movies.

e.g. Time is name of the magazine
       時代是雜誌的名字
       时       ,杂志
       shí dài shì zá zhì de míng zì