| NOUN | communication | diacritical mark, diacritic | a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation |
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| Meaning | A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation. | |
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| Synonym | diacritic | |
| Narrower | accent, accent mark | A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation |
| breve | A diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound | |
| cedilla | A diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s | |
| circumflex | A diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in some languages to indicate a special phonetic quality | |
| dieresis, diaeresis | A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel in German to indicate a change in sound | |
| hacek, wedge | A diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation | |
| macron | A diacritical mark (-) placed above a vowel to indicate a long sound | |
| tilde | A diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization | |
| umlaut | A diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate a change in sound in some languages | |
| Broader | mark | A written or printed symbol (as for punctuation) |
| Spanish | diacrítico, signo diacrítico | |
| Catalan | diacrític, signe diacrític | |
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