Word divider

Not to be confused with Word mark (computer hardware).
Word divider
  · ፡
space Latin interpunct Geʽez double point

In punctuation, a word divider is a glyph whose purpose is to separate words. In languages which use the Latin, Cyrillic, and Arabic scripts, as well as other scripts of Europe and West Asia, the word divider is a blank space, or whitespace. This convention is spreading, along with other aspects of European punctuation, to Asia and Africa, where words are usually written without word separation. However, there are a number of other word divider characters in use as well, either currently or historically. For example, the interpunct, · often used in Latin inscriptions.

In character encoding, word segmentation depends on which characters are defined as word dividers.

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