diacritical mark
Guides pronunciation visually
A diacritical mark is a small symbol added to a letter to indicate a change in pronunciation or to distinguish between similar words.
Common examples include the accent marks in café and résumé, the umlaut in naïve, and the cedilla in façade.
English borrows these marks mainly from other languages and often drops them over time.
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
- umlautDouble-dot diacritical mark
cedilla · breve · dieresis · ring · hook · horn · tittle · stroke
Visual form of character
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- fontCharacter style set
- typefaceLettering style design
encoding · combining character · modifier · superscript · subscript · special character · character set · ASCII
Of or from Paris's nation
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- GermanCentral European language
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
- CzechOf Prague's homeland
Polish · Portuguese · Turkish · Pinyin · romanization · transliteration · loanword · borrowed word
Study of speech sounds
- articulationClear vocal expression
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- consonantIn agreement with
- phonemeMinimal distinctive sound unit
acute
Intensely severe or perceptive
- graveSerious and worrying
- circumflexPeaked accent mark
- tildeWavy diacritical mark
umlaut · cedilla · breve · dieresis · ring · hook · horn · tittle · stroke · apostrophe
glyph
Visual form of character
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- orthographyStandard writing conventions
- fontCharacter style set
typeface · encoding · combining character · modifier · superscript · subscript · special character · character set · ASCII · Latin script
French
Of or from Paris's nation
- SpanishLanguage of Iberia
- GermanCentral European language
- VietnameseOf Southeast Asian nation
Czech · Polish · Portuguese · Turkish · Pinyin · romanization · transliteration · loanword · borrowed word
phonetics
Study of speech sounds
- articulationClear vocal expression
- vowelUnobstructed speech sound
- consonantIn agreement with
phoneme · nasalization · syllable · phonology · aspiration
- marksblemish, blotch, stroke, seal of approval, blot
- small marksdot, speck, spot, fleck, pip
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- annotationsfootnote, annotations, marginalia, endnote, footnotes
- character encodingASCII, charset, character set, encoding, encode