Japanese punctuation what follows proves, clarifies, explains, or simply enumerates elements of what is referred to before. Although not a native Japanese punctuation mark, the colon is sometimes used, especially in academic writing. As in English, the colon is commonly used in Japanese to indicate time (, instead of or ) or for lists ( Day/time: March 3, 4:05pm). The is usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or high volume, and generally marks the end of a sentence. A sentence ending in an exclamation mark is either an actual exclamation ("Wow!", "Boo!"), a command ("Stop!"), or is
Slovene punctuation dash is still used when listing an alias after a full name, but only if this alias does not function as a surname. In these senses, a dash is a leaning punctuation mark. Similarly, a leaning dash is used in other instances where words are closely connected to one another and both parts are inflected. A dash also expresses the meaning of 'to' or 'up to' or 'until': A dash is used as the symbol for minus, although the separate minus sign is also used: Dashes may introduce lists. For example:<br> – prvi primer,<br> – drugi primer,<br> – tretji primer.