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Compound diacritics are possible, for example U+01DA ǚ LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS AND CARON, used as a tonal marks for Hanyu Pinyin, which uses both a two dots diacritic with a caron diacritic. Conversely, when the letter to be accented is an i , the diacritic replaces the tittle, thus: ï .
Two dots (diacritic), a mark used with a base letter to indicate that its pronunciation is somehow modified ( ̈ ̤) Diaeresis (diacritic), the diacritic mark used to denote the separation of two consecutive vowels; Umlaut (diacritic), the diacritic mark to indicate the vowel-fronting sound change
Diaeresis [a] (/ d aɪ ˈ ɛr ə s ɪ s,-ˈ ɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, - EER-) [1] is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots ( ̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) – rather than a digraph or diphthong.
Two dots (diacritic), the "two side-by-side dots" diacritic, often called a "Diaeresis", despite its having further linguistic uses, such as umlaut and schwa. Diairesis, a term in Platonic and Stoic philosophy, the division of a genus into its parts
Chandrabindu – Diacritic mark typically denoting nazalization, in Indian abugidas; Interpunct – Typographical symbol, variously used as word delimiter, currency decimal delimiter, etc. (·) Tittle – Diacritical mark, the dot of the letter i; Two dots (diacritic) – Diacritic that consists of two dots placed over a letter
two dots: two overdots ( ̈) are used for umlaut, diaeresis and others; (for example ö) two underdots ( ̤) are used in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and the ALA-LC romanization system ː – triangular colon, used in the IPA to mark long vowels (the "dots" are triangular, not circular). curves ̆ – breve; for example ŏ
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Some sources distinguish "diacritical marks" (marks upon standard letters in the A–Z 26-letter alphabet) from "special characters" (letters not marked but radically modified from the standard 26-letter alphabet) such as Old English and Icelandic eth (Ð, ð) and thorn (uppercase Þ, lowercase þ), and ligatures such as Latin and Anglo-Saxon Æ (minuscule: æ), and German eszett (ß; final ...