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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
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
In some cases, the diacritic is not borrowed from any foreign language but is purely of English origin. The second of two vowels in a hiatus can be marked with a diaeresis (or "tréma") – as in words such as coöperative, daïs and reëlect – but its use has become less common, sometimes being replaced by the use of a hyphen. [8]
Two dots (diacritic) From a Unicode character : This is a redirect from a single Unicode character to an article or Wikipedia project page that infers meaning for the symbol. Examples would be monetary symbols like dollar and euro signs, language symbols, emoji, and so on.
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