comma

noun
🔊/ˈkɒmə/
🔊/ˈkɑːmə/
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  1. the mark ( , ) used to separate the items in a list or to show where there is a slight break in a sentence逗号
    • The relative clause is separated by commas.相对子句用逗号分隔。
    • You need to put a comma before ‘which’.您需要在“哪个”之前加上逗号。
    see also inverted commasTopics Languagea2
    Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally as a term in rhetoric denoting a group of words shorter than a colon): via Latin from Greek komma ‘piece cut off, short clause’, from koptein ‘cut’.