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Upside-down marks, simple in the era of hand typesetting, were originally recommended by the Real Academia Española (Royal Spanish Academy), in the second edition of the Ortografía de la lengua castellana (Orthography of the Castilian language) in 1754 [3] recommending it as the symbol indicating the beginning of a question in written Spanish—e.g. "¿Cuántos años tienes?"
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of Romance languages or Guarani it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and ...
Ligature of Latin o and u ᴕ ᴽ: Small capital Ou FUT [2] a back vowel of uncertain quality: ᴘ: Small capital P ꟼ Epigraphic letter reversed P ɸ ᶲ Phi IPA /ɸ/ IPA voiceless bilabial fricative, cf. Greek: Φ φ ⱷ Tailless phi FUT [2] ĸ: Kra Nunatsiavummiut dialect of Inuktitut in Canada, formerly Kalaallisut language of Greenland ...
Ñ, or ñ (Spanish: eñe, ⓘ), is a letter of the modern Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a virgulilla in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called tildes) on top of an upper- or lower-case n . [1]
Umlaut (/ ˈ ʊ m l aʊ t /) is a name for the two dots diacritical mark ( ̈) as used to indicate in writing (as part of the letters ä , ö , and ü ) the result of the historical sound shift due to which former back vowels are now pronounced as front vowels (for example , , and as , , and ).
Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch , Frisian , Irish , Occitan , Catalan , Pinyin , Portuguese , Spanish , Italian , Galician , and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter " U ".
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Some of the most common special characters are also generated this way. Holding the finger on the $ key, for example, accesses ₽ (Spanish peseta, pre-Euro Spanish money), ¥ , € , ¢, £, and ₩. The en dash, em dash, and • are accessed by holding the hyphen key down. The § is accessed by holding the & down.