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East Asian typographical markings From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The emphasis mark[1] or emphasis dot[2] is a typographic marking used in some East Asian languages to indicate emphasis. The markings takes in many forms like, a dot or a bullet, a circle, or a triangle. It was used more traditionally, but nowadays, with technology, quotations or changing of font style prevails.[1]
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In China and Hong Kong, the emphasis mark (Chinese: 着重号) is used in textbooks and teaching materials. It is centred under each character highlighted in the horizontal texts, and centred to the right of each character in the vertical texts.
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In Japan, the emphasis mark (傍点 bōten or 圏点 kenten) is usually a dot or a sesame dot and is centred above each character in the horizontal texts and to the right of each character in the vertical texts.
It is not unusual for kenten and ruby to concur on the same side of the main text (usually above or to the right), but this feature has not been possible with CSS.
In South Korea, the emphasis mark (드러냄표 deureonaempyo) usually rules as a dot or circle centred above the characters in the horizontal texts and to the right of the characters in the vertical texts.
Examples:
text-emphasis
property:
Apart from any single character, the following characters are used as emphasis marks in some implementations.[3]
Glyph | Unicode codepoint | Unicode name | Value for the CSS text-emphasis-style property |
Name used in Adobe InDesign |
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• | U+2022 | bullet | dot , filled , filled dot |
small black circle |
◦ | U+25E6 | white bullet | open , open dot |
small white circle |
● | U+25CF | black circle | circle , filled circle |
black circle |
○ | U+25CB | white circle | open circle |
white circle |
◉ | U+25C9 | fisheye | double-circle , filled double-circle |
fisheye |
◎ | U+25CE | bullseye | open double-circle |
bullseye |
▲ | U+25B2 | black up-pointing triangle | filled triangle , triangle |
black triangle |
△ | U+25B3 | white up-pointing triangle | open triangle |
white triangle |
﹅ | U+FE45 | sesame dot | filled sesame , sesame |
black sesame |
﹆ | U+FE46 | white sesame dot | open sesame |
white sesame |
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