ideographic commas

A form of ideographic comma — A punctuation mark, ⟨、⟩, used in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other languages that use Chinese-derived ideographs, and which has a similar function to the comma in languages that use the Roman alphabet.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of ideographic comma
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