Punctuation Marks – Chinese Vocabulary

jù zi jié shù shí tōng cháng yào zài jù mò jiā shàng jù hào.

At the end of a sentence, a period is usually added.

fù hé jù zhōng de fēn jù zhī jiān cháng yòng dòu hào gé kāi.

In compound sentences, clauses are often separated by commas.

liè jǔ bìng liè de míng cí huò duǎn yǔ shí xū yào shǐ yòng dùn hào.

When listing parallel nouns or phrases, a enumeration comma is needed.

fēn hào yòng yú fēn gé cún zài bìng liè guān xì de jiào zhǎng fēn jù.

Semicolons are used to separate longer clauses that have a parallel relationship.

yǐn yòng shuō huà nèi róng huò zuò zǒng jié shuō míng qián yào yòng mào hào.

A colon is used before quoting speech or making a summary explanation.

yí wèn jù huò fǎn wèn jù de mò wěi bì xū shǐ yòng wèn hào.

Question marks must be used at the end of questions or rhetorical questions.

biǎo dá qiáng liè gǎn qíng huò qí shǐ yǔ qì de jù zi mò wěi yòng gǎn tàn hào.

Exclamation marks are used at the end of sentences that express strong emotion or imperative tone.

zhí jiē yǐn yòng tā rén de huà yǔ shí xū yào fàng zài yǐn hào nèi.

Direct quotations of others’ words should be placed in quotation marks.

duì wén zhōng mǒu xiē cí yǔ jìn xíng bǔ chōng zhù shì shí yào shǐ yòng kuò hào.

Parentheses are used to provide supplementary notes for certain words in the text.

pò zhé hào cháng yòng lái biǎo shì yì si de zhuǎn zhé 、 dì jìn huò shēng yīn de yán cháng.

Dashes are commonly used to indicate a shift in meaning, progression, or extension of sound.

shěng lüè hào yòng lái biǎo shì shuō huà duàn duàn xù xù huò nèi róng de shěng lüè.

Ellipses are used to indicate broken speech or omitted content.

wén zhāng zhōng tí dào shū míng 、 diàn yǐng míng shí bì xū jiā shàng shū míng hào.

Book titles or movie titles mentioned in an article must be marked with book title marks.

wài guó rén míng fān yì huò shǎo shù mín zú rén míng zhī jiān cháng yòng jiàn gé hào.

A middle dot is commonly used between foreign names or minority names translations.

biǎo shì shí jiān fàn wéi huò shù liàng qū jiān shí kě yǐ shǐ yòng lián jiē hào.

A hyphen can be used to indicate a range of time or quantity.