In Chinese, there are two kinds of comma. The normal comma expresses a rather long pause in a sentence while the semi-comma stands between to words or groups of words.
Normal Comma as Rather Long Pause
| 我 | 想 | 看 | 书 | ， | 他 | 想 | 看 | 报 | 。 |
| wǒ | xiǎng | kàn | shū | _ | tā | xiǎng | kàn | bào | _ |
| I | think | look | book | _ | he | think | look | report | _ |
| I, me, my | think, would like to, think of sb, want, miss, future: will | read a book | ， | he, him, other | think, would like to, think of sb, want, miss, future: will | look, read | report | 。 | |
| I want to read a book while he wants to read a newspaper. | |||||||||
Semi-Comma as Rather Short Pause
| 我 | 想 | 去 | 中 | 国 | 、 | 德 | 国 | 。 |
| wǒ | xiǎng | qù | zhōng | guó | _ | dé | guó | _ |
| I | think | go | middle | country | _ | virtue | country | _ |
| I, me, my | think, would like to, think of sb, want, miss, future: will | go to, pass away, remove | China | 、 | Germany | 。 | ||
| I want to go to China (and) Germany. | ||||||||