Emphasis point


The emphasis point or emphasis mark is a typographic marking used in some east Asian languages to indicate emphasis. The markings takes in many forms like, a dot or a bullet, a circle, or a triangle. It was used more traditionally, but nowadays, with technology, quotations or changing of font style prevails.

In Chinese

In China and Hong Kong, the emphasis point is used in textbooks and teaching materials. It is centred under each character highlighted in the horizontal texts, and centred to the right of each character in the vertical texts.

In Japanese

In Japan, the emphasis point is usually a point or a sesame point and is centred above each character in the horizontal texts and to the right of each character in the vertical texts.

In Korean

In South Korea, the emphasis point usually rules as a point or circle centred above the characters in the horizontal texts and to the right of the characters in the vertical texts.
Examples: