WebThe diaeresis (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-sis, -⁠ EER-; is a diacritical mark used to indicate the separation of two distinct vowels in adjacent syllables when an instance of diaeresis (or hiatus) occurs, so as to distinguish from a digraph or diphthong.. It consists of two dots ¨ placed over a letter, generally a vowel; when that letter is an i , the diacritic …

WebLanguage scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark: In some forms of Arabic romanization, ġ stands for ghayin (غ); ḳ stands for qāf (ق).; The Latin orthography for Chechen includes ċ, ç̇, ġ, q̇, and ẋ.; In Emilian-Romagnol, ṅ ṡ ż are used to represent [ŋ, z, ð].; Traditional Irish typography, where the dot denotes lenition, …

WebA macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) "long", since it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.It now more often marks a long vowel.In the International Phonetic Alphabet, the macron is used to …

WebThe dakuten (Japanese: 濁点, Japanese pronunciation: [dakɯ̥teꜜɴ] or [dakɯ̥teɴ], lit. "voicing mark"), colloquially ten-ten (点々, "dots"), is a diacritic most often used in the Japanese kana syllabaries to indicate that the consonant of a syllable should be pronounced voiced, for instance, on sounds that have undergone rendaku (sequential voicing).

WebA diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω (diakrī́nō, "to distinguish").The word diacritic is a noun, though it is sometimes used in an attributive sense, whereas diacritical is only ...

WebThe Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include: consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل).The latter include the vowel marks termed ḥarakāt (حَرَكَات; singular: حَرَكَة, ḥarakah).. The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where short consonants and long vowels are represented by letters ...

WebA cedilla (/ s ɪ ˈ d ɪ l ə / sih-DIH-lə; from Spanish) or cedille (from French cédille, pronounced ) is a hook or tail ( ¸ ) added under certain letters as a diacritical mark to modify their pronunciation. In Catalan, French, and Portuguese (called cedilha) it is used only under the c (forming ç), and the entire letter is called, respectively, c trencada (i.e. "broken C"), …

WebAn underscore, _; also called an underline, low line, or low dash; is a line drawn under a segment of text.In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type", traditionally used on manuscript or typescript as an instruction to the printer.Its use to add emphasis in modern documents is a deprecated practice. The underscore …

Webダイアクリティカルマーク（フランス語: signe diacritique, ドイツ語: Diakritisches Zeichen, 英語: diacritical mark ） または、発音区別符号（はつおんくべつふごう、仏: Diacritique, 独: Diakritikum, 英: Diacritic ） は、ラテン文字などの文字が同じ字形であっても発音が区別される場合に、文字に付ける記号のこと。

WebThe circumflex ( ̂) is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin: circumflexus "bent around"—a translation of the Greek: περισπωμένη (perispōménē).. The circumflex in the Latin script is chevron-shaped ( ̂), …