Keywords: Shiroten.svg en The shiroten literally white dot White ideographic comma シロテン � �白点� �の意か � �白� きの� �テン� �� � Own Hatukanezumi 2008-10-13 class wikitable - UCS n/a - JIS X 0208 1990 n/a - JIS X 0213 2004 n/a - Adobe-Japan1-6 n/a - Other variant s - Comments This is a punctuation proposed by Ministry of Education of Japan in 1946 to describe middle strength of stopping between idecgraphic comma 読点; テン; ten and ideographic full stop 句点; マル; maru <ref> 和書 文部� �教科書� 国語調査室 くぎり符號の使ひ方� �句� 法� � 案 1946 Mar 文部� � </ref> although rarely used Cited usages show only vertical form It is not trivial that horizontal form is possible WHITE SESAME DOT 白ゴマ will be used for � �点 kenten; 傍点 bouten the dot placed on a side of character to emphasize text Gray square stands for the character boundary not a part of glyph References <references /> Punctuation in SVG Japanese characters Tōten |