Chinese punctuation for proper nouns

In Chinese writing, a proper name mark (Simplified Chinese: 专名号, zhuānmínghào; Traditional Chinese: 專名號) is an underline used to mark proper names, such as the names of people, places, dynasties, organizations.

For example, the sentence "I come from Germany." is written in Chinese as "我来自德国。" (Pinyin: Wǒ láizì Déguó.) The name of the country, in this case Germany, is underlined.

This method of recognizing proper names in text is similar to the English use of a capital letter.

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