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.
A Discord nickname stops at 32 characters, an Instagram bio at 150, a TikTok bio at 80, and X weights some characters as two. The UltraTextGen counter reads all of them at once, and counts a multi-codepoint Unicode emoji the way each platform actually bills it.
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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.