diacritical mark

Noun
  1. A mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation (synset 106833830)
    is a type of: mark - a written or printed symbol (as for punctuation)
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • 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
    • diaeresis, dieresis - a diacritical mark (two dots) placed over a vowel to indicate that it does not form a diphthong with an adjacent vowel
    same as: diacritic

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