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A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek διακριτικός ( diakritikós , "distinguishing"), from διακρίνω ( diakrínō , "to distinguish").
Accents and other diacritical signs should be retained where they are known. Accents are omitted from Spanish names in block capitals, with the exception of the Spanish tilde (Ñ), which must be retained." [31] United Nations Development Programme: "Respect use of accents and special characters in proper names. EXAMPLE: Zéphirin Diabré." [32]
For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters. For other languages and symbol sets (especially in mathematics and science), see below . This article contains special characters .
In Hebrew orthography, niqqud or nikud (Hebrew: נִקּוּד, Modern: nikúd, Tiberian: niqqūḏ, "dotting, pointing" or Hebrew: נְקֻדּוֹת, Modern: nekudót, Tiberian: nəquddōṯ, "dots") is a system of diacritical signs used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
The unrelated, but nearly identical degree symbol is U+00B0 ° DEGREE SIGN. Although similar in appearance, it is not to be confused with the Japanese handakuten (U+309A ゚ COMBINING KATAKANA-HIRAGANA SEMI-VOICED SOUND MARK), a diacritic used with the kana for syllables starting with h to indicate that they should instead be pronounced with [p].
Among the symbols of the IPA, 107 letters represent consonants and vowels, 31 diacritics are used to modify these, and 17 additional signs indicate suprasegmental qualities such as length, tone, stress, and intonation. [note 6] These are organized into a chart; the chart displayed here is the official chart as posted at the website of the IPA.
The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode also contains many precomposed characters , so that in many cases it is possible to use both combining diacritics and precomposed characters, at the user's or application's choice.
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