diacritical mark

English

Etymology

diacritical + mark

Noun

diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)

(orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. in Vietnamese or pinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese).

Synonyms

diacritic

Translations

symbol

Arabic: شَكْل‎ m (šakl), شَكْلَة‎ f (šakla)
Catalan: signe diacrític (ca) m, diacrític (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 附加符號, 附加符号 (fùjiā fúhào), 讀音符號, 读音符号 (dúyīn fúhào)
Czech: diakritické znaménko (cs) n, diakritický znak m
Danish: diakritisk tegn n
Esperanto: diakrita signo
Finnish: tarke (fi), diakriittinen merkki
French: signe diacritique (fr) m, diacritique (fr) m
Galician: signo diacrítico m
German: diakritisches Zeichen (de) n, Diakritikum (de) n, Diakritikon (de) n
Greek: διακριτικό σημείο n (diakritikó simeío)
Hebrew: ניקוד‎ (he) m (nikud)
Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)
Hungarian: diakritikus jel, mellékjel
Icelandic: stafmerki n, framburðartákn

Irish: comhartha idirdhealaitheach m
Italian: segno diacritico m
Japanese: ダイアクリティカルマーク (daiakuritikarumāku), 字上符 (じじょうふ, jijōfu)
Korean: 발음 구별 부호 (bareum gubyeol buho)
Maori: tohu whakahua
Polish: znak diakrytyczny m
Portuguese: acento diacrítico m, acento (pt) m
Romanian: semn diacritic (ro) n, diacritic (ro)
Russian: диакрити́ческий знак (ru) m (diakritíčeskij znak)
Spanish: signo diacrítico m, diacrítico (es) m
Swedish: diakritiskt tecken n, diakrit c
Tagalog: tuldik
Thai: เครื่องหมายการออกเสียง (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-ɔ̀ɔk-sǐiang)
Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: dấu phụ
Welsh: arwyddnod m, marc diacritig m

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