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There were no punctuation marks such as comma in ancient Chinese writings. It's stated in "Punctuations in Chinese Language" and in this forum's thread, "Punctuation Marks in Ancient Written Chinese", where there are two links to some ancient writings. As it's said there, having no punctuation at all, ancient scholars knew the meaning thanks to some ...

If I understand your question correctly, you're asking how to format a mixed Chinese-Latin sentence... I don't think there is a set of rules on this... The way I think of it is: Use the punctuation appropriate for that given sentence/word... 我明天要跟我女朋友去看"Les Misérables"电影。 (It's a latin movie title, so use latin quotes... but a Chinese sentence, so use ...

Well yes and no. In classic Chinese, there is no punctuation at all. I think the punctuation in Chinese are actually from European. All most all the punctuation you see in English are used in Chinese too. However because the way computer system encodes them differently, you see them differently on computer screen. For example, the Chinese exclamation mark ...

Carrot brackets: 《, 》,〈, and 〉. Called 双书名号 and 单书名号 in Chinese, both of them are 书名号. Square brackets: 【, 】,〖, and 〗. Called 实心方头括号 and 空心方头括号 in Chinese, both of them are 括号. C-brackets: 〔 and 〕. Called 六角括号 in Chinese, it belongs to 括号 either. L-brackets: 「, 」, 『, and 』. Called 引号 in Chinese, they're same as “” and ‘’. 书名号: It is a symbol to ...

Carrot brackets: 《, 》,〈, and 〉: They are called 书名号. @Frank has given their use in his answer. Square brackets: 【, 】,〖, and 〗, C-brackets: 〔 and 〕: They are all 括号. 【, 】: 实心方头括号 〖, 〗: 空心方头括号 I only just found their names in wiki, as they are not often used. Some of the situation that they may be used can be found in the wiki page. The only pair of 括号 ...

you might find this page helpful 〈Intro to Chinese Punctuation with Computer Language Syntax Perspectives〉 http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/bangu/chinese_punctuation.html by the way, i've never heard of 〈〉 or 《》 referred to as carrot brackets, nor C-bracket or L-bracket. See the unicode names for these chars in the above, also English name and Chinese ...