Comma,
Symbol Meaning
Comma serves the function of separating parts in a sentence. The European form of the comma developed from the symbol / which was previously used for a similar purpose. The English name “comma” is derived from the Greek word κόμμα, meaning “cut-off” or “short sentence.” Commas first appeared in Russian texts in the 1520s.
Other symbols that function as commas include combining comma above, ⸲, ⸴, and ⹁.
There are more symbols that serve as commas in other writing systems:
، Arabic.
、 Chinese and Japanese.
՝ Armenian.
߸ N'Ko.
፣ Mongolian.
᠈ Manchu Mongolian (Old Mongolian).
꓾ Lisu.
꘍ Vai.
꛵ Bamum.
᭞ Balinese. It's called “karik siki” and it is placed before and after a number to separate it from the text.
The symbol “Comma” is included in the “ASCII punctuation” subblock of the “Basic Latin” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993.
Synonyms
decimal separator.
| Unicode Name | Comma |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Entity | , |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Basic Latin |
| Unicode Subblock | ASCII punctuation |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 002C |
| Simple case change | 002C |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Terminal_Punctuation | + |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | 2C | 44 | 44 | 00101100 |
| UTF-16BE | 00 2C | 0 44 | 44 | 00000000 00101100 |
| UTF-16LE | 2C 00 | 44 0 | 11264 | 00101100 00000000 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 00 2C | 0 0 0 44 | 44 | 00000000 00000000 00000000 00101100 |
| UTF-32LE | 2C 00 00 00 | 44 0 0 0 | 738197504 | 00101100 00000000 00000000 00000000 |