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ꓼ ؛ auto ; 0x37e - ﹔ ； ︔ Translingual Description A full stop (mul .) above a comma (mul ,). Etymology Derives from the punctus versus. The Italian printer Aldus Manutius established the practice of using the semicolon mark to separate words of opposed meaning, and to indicate interdependent statements. The earliest, general use of the semicolon in English was in 1591. Punctuation mark semicolon en conjunction markUsed to separate two sentences, the latter of which qualifies the former, thus substituting for coordinating conjunctions such as and, but, and for; or to separate a series of related clauses or sentences. en Don’t pay any attention to him; he’s just kidding. en Nothing is true; everything is permitted. Separates items in a list where the list items themselves include commas. en Guests at the summit included David Cameron, the British Prime Minister; Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor; and François Hollande, the French President. mul dated Separates clauses with opposed meanings. en mul 1878 Thomas Rawson Birks citing a quotation given by Franz Delitzsch, originally by Francis William Newman F. W. Newmann Commentary on the Book of Isaiah 247 https://archive.org/details/commentaryonbook00birk/page/246/mode/2up The name grc Θῖναι, Strabo, grc Σῖναι, Claudius Ptolemy Ptol., grc Τζίνιτζα, Cosmas Indicopleustes Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897. mul programming Marks the end of a statement in some programming languages. mul <?php echo 'Hello world!'; ?> PHP mul printf("Hello world!"); C mul speech therapy Used to separate the year and month of a child's age. Usage notes In English, regarding en conjunction mark, when clauses or sentences separated by a semicolon are read out, the pause indicated by the punctuation mark is longer than that for the comma, but shorter than that for a full stop or period. In French, all composite symbols (i.e. ;, mul :, mul ! and mul ?) should be preceded by a non-breaking space, except ! and ? in Canadian French, where no preceding space is needed. In Greek, this symbol is a question mark, and the role of semicolon is fulfilled by U+0387 ·, the el άνω τελεία upper stop. Derived terms mul & ; Symbol Represents two eyes vertically aligned, the lower one winking, in order to form emoticons. mul : en (; See also Further reading Semicolon mul emoticons Ancient Greek Punctuation mark grc punctuation mark ; - ? (the Greek question mark) See also Greek Punctuation mark el punctuation mark ? (the Greek question mark) el Με συγχωρείτε· πού είναι οι τουαλέτες; Excuse me; where are the toilets? Usage notes While Unicode contains a specific character for solely the Greek question mark (037e – U+037E), the regular semicolon (U+003B) is preferred. In Greek, a semicolon is represented by · (U+0387), named the el άνω τελεία upper stop. Lhao Vo Pronunciation mhx /ʔ/ Letter mhx letter glottal stop with low lexical tone. Usage notes The punctuation mark is separated from the preceding word by a space, the tone mark is not. Low tone is written mhx ꞉ with any other final.