diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent – is a glyph added to a letter (basic glyph/grapheme). The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός (diakritikós, “distinguishing”), from διακρίνω (diakrī́nō, “to distinguish”)
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
- accent
- acute ( ´ )
- double acute ( ˝ )
- grave ( ` )
- double grave ( ̏ )
- circumflex ( ˆ )
- caron, háček ( ˇ )
- breve ( ˘ )
- inverted breve ( ̑ )
- cedilla ( ¸ )
- diaeresis, umlaut ( ¨ )
- dot ( · )
- palatal hook ( ̡ )
- retroflex hook ( ̢ )
- hook above, dấu hỏi ( ̉ )
- horn ( ̛ )
- iota subscript ( ͅ )
- macron ( ˉ )
- ogonek, nosinė ( ˛ )
- perispomene ( ͂ )
- overring ( ˚ )
- underring ( ˳ )
- rough breathing ( ῾ )
- smooth breathing ( ᾿ )
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
- apostrophe ( ’ )
- bar ( ◌̸ )
- colon ( : )
- comma ( , )
- period ( . )
- hyphen ( ˗ )
- prime ( ′ )
- tilde ( ~ )
Diacritical marks in other scripts
- Arabic diacritics
- Early Cyrillic diacritics
- kamora( ҄ )
- pokrytie( ҇ )
- titlo( ҃ )
- Gurmukhī diacritics
- Hebrew diacritics
- Indic diacritics
- anusvara ( ं ং ം )
- chandrabindu ( ँ ఁ )
- nukta ( ़ )
- virama ( ् ് ్ ් ್ )
- visarga ( ः ঃ )
- IPA diacritics
- Japanese diacritics
- dakuten ( ﾞ)
- handakuten ( ﾟ)
- Khmer diacritics
- Syriac diacritics
- Thai diacritics