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Description
A full stop above a comma.

Etymology
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.

Usage notes

 * In French, all composite symbols (i.e. ;,, and ) 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.

Punctuation mark

 * 1) ? (the Greek question mark)

Punctuation mark

 * 1) ? (the Greek question mark)

Usage notes

 * While there is a specific character for solely the Greek question mark ( – U+037E), the regular semicolon (U+003B) is preferred.
 * In Greek, a semicolon is represented by · (U+0387), named the.

Usage notes
The punctuation mark is separated from the preceding word by a space.

Low tone is written $⟨⟩$ with any other final.