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Punctuation marks

apostrophe ( ' ) ( )
brackets ( ( ) ) ( ) ( { } ) ( 〈 〉 )
colon ( : )
comma ( , )
dashes ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
ellipsis ( ) ( w/. )
exclamation mark ( ! )
full stop/period ( . )
hyphen ( - ) ( )
interrobang ( )
question mark ( ? )
quotation marks ( ‘ ’ ) ( “ ” )
semicolon ( ; )
slash/solidus ( / )
space ( ) and interpunct ( · )

Other typographer's marks

ampersand ( & )
asterisk ( * ) and asterism ( )
at ( @ )
backslash ( \ )
bullet ( , more )
dagger ( † ‡ )
degrees ( ° )
number sign ( # )
prime ( )
tilde ( ~ )
underscore ( _ )
vertical bar/pipe ( | )

In typography, a bullet is a typographical symbol or glyph used to introduce items in a list, like below:

  • This is the text of a list item. Notice the bullet to the left.
  • This is a different list item, and so there is another bullet.

    This line is part of the second list item; there is no bullet.

It is most conveniently used in technical writing or reference works to introduce a series of related items. They may be short phrases or of paragraph length. The main point is that all need to be tied together under a general heading. Bulleted items, commonly called "bullets", are usually terminated with a full stop (unless they do not form complete sentences), although it is also a common practice (for example, in Portugal) to terminate every item except the last one with a semicolon.

The bullet corresponds to Unicode character 0x2022. In HTML, the codes and give • and •, respectively, but semantics requires that bulleted items be achieved with the appropriate use of the AND1lt;li> tag inside an unordered list (AND1lt;ul>). Unicode also defines a triangular bullet (U+2023).

It is likely that the name 'bullet point' originated from the resemblance of the mark to a bullet.

Bullets are not limited in shape to a black dot (as it is displayed above). A typical word processor offers intriguing shapes such as the circle with 4 colours, the leaf, and the multicoloured square; if you are writing, you are free to 'draw' your bullets in any way you like.

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