顿号 (頓號)
dùn hào
Pinyin

Definition

顿号 (頓號)
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dùn hào
  1. Chinese back-sloping comma 、 (punct. used to separate items in a list)

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

信号
xìn hào
  1. 1 signal
外号
wài hào
  1. 1 nickname
号
háo
  1. 1 roar
  2. 2 cry
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè
号令
hào lìng
  1. 1 an order (esp. army)
  2. 2 bugle call expressing military order
  3. 3 verbal command
号码
hào mǎ
  1. 1 number
  2. 2 classifier: 堆 duī
  3. 3 classifier: 个 gè

Idioms (5)

啼饥号寒
tí jī háo hán
  1. 1 hunger cries and cold roars (idiom); wretched poverty
捶胸顿足
chuí xiōng dùn zú
  1. 1 to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)
狼号鬼哭
láng háo guǐ kū
  1. 1 lit. wolves howling, devils groaning (idiom); pathetic screams
发号施令
fā hào shī lìng
  1. 1 to boss people around (idiom)
茅塞顿开
máo sè dùn kāi
  1. 1 murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear

Sample Sentences

另外，书名号和顿号也是中国特有的标点符号，英语中根本不存在。
lìngwài ，shūmínghào hé dùnhào yě shì Zhōngguó tèyǒu de biāodiǎn fúhào ，yīngyǔ zhōng gēnběn bù cúnzài 。
Also, title marks and serial commas are special Chinese punctuation marks. They simply don't exist in English.
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一般用斜体或者粗体就可以了。至于顿号一般都是逗号。
yībān yòng xiétǐ huò zhě cūtǐ jiù kěyǐ le 。zhìyú dùnhào yībān dōu shì dòuhào 。
Using italics or bold is usually okay. As for serial commas, we just use regular commas.
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顿号、
dùnhào 、
List comma.
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