English word senses marked with topical category "Diacritical marks"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Symbols, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 112 word senses
- accent acute (Noun) An acute accent.
- accent grave (Noun) A grave accent.
- acute (Noun) An acute accent (´).
- acute accent (Noun) A diacritical mark ( ´ ) that can be placed above a number of letters in many languages of the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic writing systems.
- anusvara (Noun) A diacritic used in Indic scripts as a nasal consonant.
- apostrophe (Noun) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
- bar (Noun) Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash.
- breve (Noun) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
- candrabindu (Noun) A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It usually indicates that the previous vowel is nasalized. Shown here over the letter "ka" (or in the case of Telugu, after the "ka"):; A diacritic used in Indic scripts like Devanagari (ँ), Bengali (ঁ), Gurmukhi ( ਁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), and Telugu (ఁ) scripts. It…
- caron (Noun) háček
- cedilla (Noun) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark ⟨¸⟩ sometimes placed under the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Catalan força, French menaçant, and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.
- circumflex (Noun) A diacritical mark (ˆ) placed over a vowel in the orthography or transliteration of many languages to change its pronunciation; while in some other languages over a consonant.
- circumflex accent (Noun) Synonym of circumflex
- comma (Noun) A similar-looking subscript diacritical mark.
- cédille (Noun) A cedilla.
- dakuten (Noun) A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
- diacritic (Adjective) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
- diacritic (Noun) A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
- diacritical mark (Noun) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. in Vietnamese or pinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese).
- diaeresis (Noun) A diacritic (◌̈) placed over a vowel letter (especially the second of two consecutive ones) indicating that it is sounded separately, usually forming a distinct syllable, as in the English words naïve, Noël and Brontë, the French haïr and the Dutch ruïne.
- dialytika (Noun) A diaeresis or trema in the Greek alphabet
- diaresis (Noun) Alternative spelling of diaeresis
- dieresis (Noun) Alternative form of diaeresis
- diæresis (Noun) Archaic spelling of diaeresis.
- dot (Noun) A point used as a diacritical mark above or below various letters of the Latin script, as in Ȧ, Ạ, Ḅ, Ḃ, Ċ.
- double acute accent (Noun) A rare diacritical mark (˝) made up of two acute accents on the same letter, usually a vowel.
- double grave accent (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance consists of two grave accents.
- geresh (Noun) The symbol "׳", that serves as a diacritical mark, or a punctuation mark, in Hebrew.
- grave (Adjective) Serious, in a negative sense; important, formidable.
- grave (Noun) A grave accent.
- grave accent (Noun) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.
- halant (Noun) A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
- halant (Noun) A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
- halant (Noun) A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication that the first consonant does not have an implicit vowel
- handakuten (Noun) A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
- hook (Noun) A diacritical mark shaped like the upper part of a question mark, as in ỏ.
- hook above (Noun) A tone mark ( ̉) that indicates falling then rising tone in Vietnamese.
- horn (Noun) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
- hungarumlaut (Noun) The double acute accent (˝), a rare diacritical mark made up of two acute accents, chiefly used in the Hungarian language.
- háček (Noun) A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling a prime (′) instead.
- inverted breve (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a breve upside-down, thus similar to a rounded circumflex.
- inverted caret (Noun) A caret (^) that has been inverted.
- killer (Noun) Synonym of virama (“kind of diacritical mark”)
- kroužek (Noun) A ring-shaped diacritical mark (˚), whose use is largely restricted to Å, å and Ů, ů, and whereon it represents an etymological ‘o’.
- kubutz (Noun) A Hebrew nikud diacritical mark (◌ֻ) in the form of three diagonal dots underneath a letter. Kubutz is pronounced as (Modern Israeli Hebrew) /u/, like the vowel “o” in “moon”.
- long-vowel mark (Noun) The symbol ː (the triangular colon), which marks long vowels in IPA.
- long-vowel mark (Noun) The symbol ー, which marks long vowels in Japanese hiragana and katakana.
- macron (Noun) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long.
- macron below (Noun) A diacritical mark whose appearance is of a macron, and is placed below the letter.
- maru (Noun) A suffix of Japanese ship names.
- maru (Noun) A semi-voiced diacritic (゜) used with Japanese kana to change a /h/ to a /p/.
- maru (Noun) A large, circular punctuation mark (。) used as a full stop in Japanese text.
- middle tilde (Noun) A tilde that runs through a character halfway up instead of being placed above it.
- ogonek (Noun) A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
- overdot (Noun) A dot placed above a letter, as a diacritical mark.
- overring (Noun) A ring diacritic positioned above a character, as in Å.
- oxia (Noun) An Ancient Greek pitch-marking diacritic: ⟨ ´ ⟩; written atop vowels, it denotes high pitch on short vowels, and rising pitch on long vowels and diphthongs.
- ring (Noun) A diacritical mark in the shape of a hollow circle placed above or under the letter; a kroužek.
- rocker (Noun) The breve below as in ḫ.
- rough breathing (Noun) The sound equivalent to an initial "h" before a vowel or an "r" in Ancient Greek.
- segol (Noun) A Hebrew niqqud diacritical mark (◌ֶ) in the form of three dots arranged as an upside-down triangle, pronounced in Modern Hebrew as /e/.
- slash (Noun) Slash fiction.
- solidus (Noun) Various medieval and early modern coins or units of account; Synonym of shilling: an English unit of account and, following the Tudor dynasty, silver coin.
- solidus (Noun) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩, originally (UK) in its use as the shilling mark and now its formal designation by the ISO and Unicode.
- solidus (Noun) The formal name of the oblique strikethrough overlay (as in A̷ and B̸) in Unicode.
- strikethrough (Verb) Alternative form of strike through
- stroke (Noun) A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.; A line making up a written character; specifically, a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character.
- stroke (Noun) A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.; In Unicode: the formal name of the individual horizontal strikethroughs (as in "A̶").
- stroke (Noun) A movement of a brush in painting, of a chisel in carving, of a pen, pencil, or such implement in drawing or writing, etc., in one direction; hence, a line or mark made on a surface by such an implement.; The oblique, slash, or virgule ("/").
- stroke (Verb) Followed by out or through: to draw a line or lines through (text) to indicate that it is deleted; to cancel, to strike or strike out.
- sukun (Noun) A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
- tenten (Noun) A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
- tečka (Noun) A dot diacritic (used to mark consonantal palatalisation).
- tilde (Noun) The grapheme of character ~.; A diacritical mark (˜) placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation, such as by palatalization in Spanish words or nasalization in Portuguese words.
- titlo (Noun) The character ◌҃, which serves as a diacritical mark in Old Cyrillic.
- tittle (Noun) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
- tonos (Noun) The Modern Greek stress-marking diacritic: ⟨ ΄ ⟩, written atop a vowel in a given word’s stressed syllable.
- trema (Noun) A diacritic consisting of two dots ( ¨ ) placed over a letter, used among other things to indicate umlaut or diaeresis.
- triangular colon (Noun) A diacritical mark (ː), used in IPA, consisting of two triangles, and marking the preceding phoneme as long.
- umlaut (Noun) The diacritical mark ( ¨ ) placed over a vowel when it indicates a (rounded) front vowel
- underdot (Noun) A dot placed below a letter, as a diacritical mark.
- vinculum (Noun) Any symbol used to group some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation should be done before other parts, or that the Roman numeral underneath should be multiplied by 1,000.
- vinculum (Noun) A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts.
- vinculum (Noun) A horizontal line over the top of some of the terms in an expression, indicating that that part of the calculation is to be done before other parts.; Specifically, the horizontal line between the numerator and denominator in a fraction.
- vinculum (Noun) A ligament that limits the movement of an organ or part.
- virama (Noun) A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
- virama (Noun) A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
- ümlaut (Noun) Misspelling of umlaut.
- čiriklo (Noun) A háček (marking palatalisation when written atop a consonant, iotation when written atop a vowel).
- ~ (Character) Written on a letter, usually a vowel, in place of an omitted n or m.
- ◌̀ (Character) Used to indicate that the suffix -ed is pronounced with a schwa: lookèd (IPA /ˈlʊkəd/); past-tense learned vs adjective learnèd. Often used for metrical reasons.
- ◌̀ (Character) Sometimes used for secondary stress in glossaries that use ◌́ for primary stress when full pronunciations are not given.
- ◌̀ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words, particularly when unassimilated: à la carte, crème brûlée, pièce de résistance, pied-à-terre, tête-à-tête, vis-à-vis.
- ◌̀ (Character) An affectation in some proper names: e.g. Ketèlbey.
- ◌́ (Character) Used on loan words to mark e's (mostly final) that are pronounced rather than silent, e.g. animé, café, exposé, maté, resumé, paté, saké; Malé, Pokémon. (Cf. expose, mate, resume, pate, sake, male.)
- ◌́ (Character) Used in glossaries, such as for Latinate technical terms or Classical names, to mark stressed syllables when full pronunciations are not given, as the pronunciation is largely predictable once stress-placement is known.
- ◌́ (Character) Used to show an unexpectedly stressed syllable, or where the choice of stress is metrically important, e.g. idiosyncratic caléndar; noun rébel as opposed to verb rebél; áll trádes as a spondee rather than iamb.
- ◌́ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated:; Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French é), particularly when unassimilated
- ◌̂ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French): château, crème brûlée, crêpe, maître d', mêlée, papier-mâché, rôle, tête-à-tête.
- ◌̄ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
- ◌̆ (Character) The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
- ◌̆ (Character) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.
- ◌̈ (Character) Retained in foreign (mostly French) loan words where vowels are pronounced separately: naïve (or naive), Noël (or Noel), but also for umlaut in German Götterdämmerung, Führer.
- ◌̧ (Character) Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
- ◌͝◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'short' sound: ⟨o͝o⟩ /ʊ/.
- ◌͞◌ (Character) Used to mark the digraph ⟨oo⟩ as having its 'long' sound: ⟨o͞o⟩ /uː/.
- ◌͞◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͞a, a͞e, a͞o, e͞w, c͞i, s͞i, t͞h, t͞i.
- ◌͟◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a͟i and c͟h.
- ◌͡◌ (Character) Used to mark digraphs such as the consonants ⟨c͜h, n͡g, s͜h, t͜h, z͜h⟩ for IPA /t͡ʃ, ŋ, ʃ, θ, ʒ/, ⟨ᴋ͜ʜ⟩ for Scottish /x/, or the rhotic vowels ⟨a͡r, e͡r⟩ for IPA /ɑɹ, ɜɹ/.
- ◌᷍◌ (Character) Ties together the pronunciation-key digraphs a᷍a, a᷍i, a᷍u, e᷍e, e᷍i, e᷍u, o᷍i.
- ◌᷵ (Character) Marks a vowel as a schwa.
- ◌᷵ (Character) A partially or optionally reduced vowel, e.g. fa᷵‧tal′i‧ty, de᷵‧pend′, pro᷵‧pose′, for′mu᷵‧late.
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