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diacritic
[ dahy-uh-krit-ik ]
noun
- Also called diacritical mark. a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.
adjective
diacritic
/ 藢诲补瑟蓹藞办谤瑟迟瑟办 /
noun
- Also calleddiacritical mark a sign placed above or below a character or letter to indicate that it has a different phonetic value, is stressed, or for some other reason
adjective
- another word for diacritical
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of diacritic1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of diacritic1
C17: from Greek diakritikos serving to distinguish, from diakrinein, from dia- + krinein to separate
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The Vietnamese language is written with marks 鈥 diacritics 鈥 that represent different tones.
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Bold, bright letters decorated with the diacritics that denote tones in the Vietnamese language advertised the dishes on sale.
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He originally spelled Ikea with an acute accent on the 鈥渆,鈥 but dropped the fake diacritic in the 1960s.
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Exclamation points, interrobangs and innumerable French diacritics were all part of his patois.
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A trema is a diacritic mark that consists of two dots and is placed over a letter, 鈥渘a茂ve鈥 in the strip.
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