Interpunct
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An interpunct ⟨·⟩, also known as an interpoint, middle dot, middot, centered dot or centred dot, is a punctuation mark consisting of a vertically centered dot used for interword separation in Classical Latin. It appears in a variety of uses in some modern languages and is present in Unicode as U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT.
Metro station Paral·lel in Barcelona
Pe̍h-ōe-jī
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Pe̍h-ōe-jī, sometimes known as Church Romanization, is an orthography used to write variants of Hokkien Southern Min, particularly Taiwanese and Amoy Hokkien, and it is widely employed as one of the writing systems for Southern Min. During its peak, it had hundreds of thousands of readers.
Pe̍h-ōe-jī inscription at a church in Tainan (Tâi-lâm) commemorating Thomas Barclay
A sign over a chicken rice restaurant in Sanchong, Taiwan, reading "Ke Bah Png" with no diacritics or hyphens; the correct POJ version would be "ke-bah-pn̄g", or "koe-bah-pn̄g" in the local pronunciation
Some books which use pe̍h-ōe-jī, including textbooks, dictionaries, a bible, poetry, and academic works