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What is the Chinese punctuation system?
Chinese text has its own unique punctuation system that differs from that in English. When your English text is translated into Chinese, your interpunction symbols must be adapted into Chinese style:
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Punctuation
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English mode
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Chinese mode
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Comma
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,
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，
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Full stop
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.
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。
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Quotation mark
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Single quotes
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Hyphen
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-
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Question mark
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?
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？
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Excalmatory point
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!
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！
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Colon
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:
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：
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Whats the real difference? The English punctuation marks are of single-type symbols, while the Chinese marks are of double-byte.
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