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My digital version of《现代汉语规范词典》seems to be using halfwidth ideographic commas, ､ (U+FF64).
Here's their definition for 巾:
名 用来擦､包或盖东西的小块织物
It looks like a poor attempt at a fullwidth ideographic comma (顿号) and seems to be missing any sort of space what-so-ever after the punctuation mark.
Is there ever usage of the halfwidth ideographic comma in Chinese punctuation? (Add your own spaces?)
Mainstream pinyin input methods mainly use full-width '、' character. And under most formal situations, full-width '、' is required to keep consistency with other full-width punctuation markers (for example: '。', '，', '！').
I’d say no. All regular Chinese punctuation marks are full-width. There shouldn't be any spaces before or after punctuation marks when you are typesetting Chinese.
When people input Chinese, all Chinese characters and punctuation marks are typed under the full-width mode, while numbers, letters, and other symbols should be typed under the half-width mode. “、” (顿号) is no exception.
