Comma certain homonyms. The comma therefore functions as a silent letter in a handful of Greek words, principally distinguishing ("ó,ti", "whatever") from ("óti", "that"). The enumeration or ideographic comma——is used in Chinese, Japanese punctuation, and somewhat in Korean punctuation. In the People's Republic of China and in North/South Korea, this comma ( , , "dùnhào") is usually used only to separate items in lists, while in Japan it is the more common form of comma (, "tōten", "clause mark"). In documents that mix Japanese and Latin scripts, the full-width comma () is used; this is the standard form of comma (
Punctuation Rs. 20/- or Rs. 20/= implies 20 rupees whole. Thai did not use punctuation until the adoption of punctuation from the West in the 20th century. Blank spaces are more frequent than full stops or commas. "Further information: Armenian punctuation, Chinese punctuation, Hebrew punctuation, Japanese punctuation and Korean punctuation." In 1966, the French author Hervé Bazin proposed a series of six innovative punctuation marks in his book "Plumons l'Oiseau" ("Let's pluck the bird", 1966). These were: An international patent application was filed, and published in 1992 under Work Order (WO) number WO9219458, for two new punctuation marks: the "question comma"