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What symbol is''

It's a single quote.

Single quotation marks refer to parts or words that are generally used for direct quotation. When quotation marks are used inside, double quotation marks are used outside and single quotation marks are used inside. The national standard "Usage of Punctuation" stipulates that the words marked with quotation marks are "written directly quoted words" in order to distinguish these words from the author's own words.

If there is a quotation in the quotation, the method of double outside and single inside should be adopted. That is, the outer layer is double quotation marks and the inner layer is single quotation marks. For example, at that time, there was a newspaper in Beiping: 1 1 Chongqing special telegram on October 30th: "Fu Sinian, acting president of Peking University, has returned to Chongqing from Kunming, and told reporters that' the faculty members of the pseudo-Peking University are all public officials of pseudo-organizations, so they should be included in the rebels and cannot hold important positions in the future'. "

Introduction to common punctuation marks:

1, comma

That is, ","divides the sentence into meaning groups, indicating a pause less than a semicolon and greater than a pause. Comma is the most frequently used punctuation mark in Chinese and most foreign languages, and it is a special case that Korean uses more periods than commas. Comma is the most widely used and flexible, so it is also the most difficult to master.

2. Period

A punctuation mark in the form of ".",which means "."in English. Punctuation used at the end of a statement. A period indicates the end of a sentence and the beginning of a new sentence, reminding readers that the expression of this sentence has ended.

Step 3: question mark

Symbol "?" . Question mark is an auxiliary symbol tool of mood and intonation, which indicates the pause and mood after a sentence is finished. Used at the end of questions, rhetorical questions and rhetorical questions. The pause at the end of the question is a question mark. Question marks are also used at the end of rhetorical questions, which generally do not appear at the beginning of lines at present.