The CJK list comma — the mark Chinese uses to separate items in a series, and Japanese uses as an ordinary sentence pause. Click any symbol to copy it instantly.
The ideographic comma (、, Unicode U+3001) is the wedge-shaped comma used across Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography. It is not a stylistic variant of the Western comma — in Chinese it is a separate mark with a separate job: 、 separates items in a list (蘋果、香蕉、橘子), while the fullwidth comma ， separates clauses within a sentence. Chinese grammar names them differently for that reason, 頓號 for the enumeration comma and 逗號 for the clause comma. Japanese uses the same glyph for a different job again — as 読点 (touten), the general mid-sentence pause mark, closer to how English uses a plain comma. It sits in the CJK Symbols and Punctuation block alongside the ideographic full stop 。, and because it appears on no English keyboard layout, copy-paste is usually the fastest way to get one.
The enumeration comma itself, plus the vertical presentation form used in traditional top-to-bottom CJK typesetting.
These two are not interchangeable in Chinese writing. 、 joins items in a list; ， marks a pause between clauses. Using the wrong one is the single most common CJK punctuation mistake for non-native writers — and the plain ASCII comma is a third character again, half the width of both.
The marks that share the ideographic comma's block and its fullwidth spacing — none of which are on a standard English keyboard.
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The three-dot mark that CJK typography doubles to six — another punctuation character with its own separate Chinese and Japanese conventions.
Straight, curly, and guillemet quote styles — including the CJK corner brackets that pair with this comma.