cedilla
Underscored pronunciation mark
A cedilla is the small hook-shaped mark placed under certain letters to indicate a change in pronunciation.
In French and Portuguese, the cedilla appears under the letter c (ç) to show it should be pronounced like an s rather than a k: façade, François.
The mark appears in several other languages with varying functions.
Symbol modifying letter pronunciation
- glyphVisual form of character
- hookCurved catching device
- tailRear animal appendage
- accentRegional speech pattern
character · letterform · typeface · font · subscript · typesetting · printing · calligraphy
False outward appearance
Make less firm
- sibilantFricative with hiss quality
- consonantIn agreement with
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
- articulationClear vocal expression
phoneme · voiceless · fricative · modification · orthographic · phonology
Turkey's founding leader
- romanizationScript-to-alphabet conversion process
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
diacritic
Symbol modifying letter pronunciation
accent · character · letterform · typeface · font · subscript · typesetting · printing · calligraphy · manuscript
façade
False outward appearance
soften
Make less firm
- sibilantFricative with hiss quality
- consonantIn agreement with
- pronunciationManner of speaking words
articulation · phoneme · voiceless · fricative · modification · orthographic · phonology
Atatürk
Turkey's founding leader
- romanizationScript-to-alphabet conversion process
- OttomanMember of Turkish dynasty
açaí
Amazonian palm berry
diacritical
Relating to accent marks
- BucharestRomania's governmental seat
- lettersa, d, e, h, q
- marksmark, blemish, blotch, stroke, seal of approval
- punctuationperiod, comma, colon, apostrophe, semicolon
- written symbolsletters, alphabets, punctuation, commas, periods
- small marksdot, speck, spot, fleck, pip
- diacriticsacute accent, acute, circumflex, breve, grave accent
cedillaacute accent
Diacritic showing stress
grave accent · circumflex · tilde · umlaut · diaeresis