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The emphasis mark or emphasis dot is a typographic marking used in some
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to indicate emphasis. The markings takes in many forms like, a dot or a bullet, a circle, or a triangle. It was used more traditionally, but nowadays, with technology, quotations or changing of font style prevails.


In Chinese

In China and Hong Kong, the emphasis mark () is used in textbooks and teaching materials. It is centred under each character highlighted in the horizontal texts, and centred to the right of each character in the vertical texts.


In Japanese

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, the emphasis mark ( ' or ') is usually a dot or a sesame dot and is centred above each character in the horizontal texts and to the right of each character in the vertical texts. It is not unusual for ''kenten'' and
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to concur on the same side of the main text (usually above or to the right), but this feature has not been possible with CSS.


In Korean

In
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, the emphasis mark ( ') usually rules as a dot or circle centred above the characters in the horizontal texts and to the right of the characters in the vertical texts. Examples: * using the
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property: *: 한글의 본 이름은 훈민정음이다. *: 중요한 것은 왜 사느냐가 아니라 어떻게 사느냐 하는 문제이다. * using positioned characters: : *: 한글의 본 이름은 •훈•민•정•음이다. *: 중요한 것은 ◦왜 ◦사◦느◦냐◦가 아니라 ◦어◦떻◦게 ◦사◦느◦냐 하는 문제이다.


Characters

Apart from any single character, the following characters are used as emphasis marks in some implementations.


See also

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Chinese punctuation Chinese punctuation has punctuation marks that are derived from both Chinese and Western sources. Although there was a long native tradition of textual annotation to indicate the boundaries of sentences and clauses, the concept of punctuation ...
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Japanese punctuation includes various written marks (besides characters and numbers), which differ from those found in European languages, as well as some not used in formal Japanese writing but frequently found in more casual writing, such as exclamation and questi ...
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Korean punctuation For the Korean language, South Korea mainly uses a combination of East Asian and European punctuation, while North Korea uses a little more of the East Asian punctuation style. Traditional Punctuation In the traditional Korean system of writin ...


References

* * * {{Cite web, url=http://www.korean.go.kr/09_new/dic/rule/rule01_0706.jsp, title=한글 맞춤법: VI. 드러냄표, language=ko, access-date=2019-03-28, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201204800/http://www.korean.go.kr/09_new/dic/rule/rule01_0706.jsp, archive-date=2014-02-01, url-status=dead Typographical symbols Pages with unreviewed translations East Asian typography