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A raised dot inside a foreign name.
Also known as: Chinese interpunct
The Chinese mark separating the parts of a transliterated foreign personal name.
Separates the given name from the family name in a transliterated foreign name.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Public information
Solves a problem Chinese script creates for itself: a transliterated name is a run of characters with no spaces and no capitals, so without the dot there is nothing to say where one part of the name ends. Chinese names need no such mark, which is why it appears only on foreign ones.
Contexts: Language and transcription, Public information
A single small dot set at the vertical middle of the line, occupying its own character width between two runs of characters.