Comma
Part of Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126
On Windows, hold Alt and type 44 on the numeric keypad to insert comma.
- Alt code
- Alt+44
- HTML entity
- ,
- Unicode
- U+002C
About this symbol
The comma takes its name from the Greek komma, a piece cut off, meaning a short phrase. Its modern shape, a small curved tail on the baseline, was set by the Venetian printer Aldus Manutius in the 1490s, from the slash that earlier scribes used.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- COMMA
- Also called
- The use as decimal or thousands separator is locale dependent
- Type
- Punctuation
- Unicode block
- Basic Latin
- Unicode group
- ASCII punctuation
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
Click the symbol or any value at the top of the page to copy it. See the full Basic ASCII: Alt 33 to 126 chart for related characters.