Editing Interpunct (section)

=== Japanese ===
{{Main|Japanese punctuation}}
Interpuncts are often used to separate transcribed foreign names or words written in [[katakana]]. For example, "[[Beautiful Sunday (song)|Beautiful Sunday]]" becomes {{lang|ja|ビューティフル・サンデー}} ({{Transliteration|ja|Byūtifuru·Sandē}}). A middle dot is also sometimes used to separate lists in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] instead of the [[Comma#East Asia|Japanese comma]]. Dictionaries and [[grammar]] lessons in Japanese sometimes also use a similar symbol to separate a [[verb]] [[Affix|suffix]] from its root. While some fonts may render the Japanese middle dot as a square under great magnification, this is not a defining property of the middle dot that is used in China or Japan.

However, the Japanese writing system usually does not use space or punctuation to separate words (though the mixing of katakana, [[kanji]] and [[hiragana]] gives some indication of word boundary).

In Japanese [[typography]], there exist two Unicode code points:
* {{unichar|30FB|katakana middle dot}}, with a fixed width that is the same as most kana characters, known as ''fullwidth''.
* {{unichar|FF65|halfwidth katakana middle dot}}

The interpunct also has a number of other uses in Japanese, including the following: to separate titles, names and positions: {{lang|ja-Hani|課長補佐・鈴木}} (Assistant Section Head · Suzuki); as a decimal point when writing numbers in kanji: {{lang|ja-Hani|{{nowrap|三・一四一五九二 (3.141 592)}}}}; as a slash when writing for "or" in abbreviations: {{lang|ja-Hani|{{nowrap|月・水・金曜日 (Mon/Wed/Friday)}}}}; in place of hyphens, dashes and colons when writing vertically; and in song lyrics to add a brief pause between syllables.