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The last 3 fonts, Adobe HeiTi Std, SimSun and SimHei, demonstrate the letters in the usage of Pinyin. All the letters are fixed width (manual kerning is done on Adobe HeiTi Std to constrict space). In Adobe HeiTi Std and SimSun, the stroke goes from bottom-left (thicker) to top-right (thinner), showing the rising nature of the tone.
Modifier Letter Circumflex Accent 0359 in WGL4: U+02C7 ˇ 711 Caron: 0360 U+02C8 ˈ 712 Modifier Letter Vertical Line · U+02C9 ˉ 713 Modifier Letter Macron 0361 in WGL4: U+02CA ˊ 714 Modifier Letter Acute Accent · U+02CB ˋ 715 Modifier Letter Grave Accent U+02CC ˌ 716 Modifier Letter Low Vertical Line U+02CD ˍ 717 Modifier Letter Low ...
The acute accent is also used to break up sequences of vowels that would normally be pronouced as a diphthong into two syllables, as in the word reír. Diaeresis is used on u only, to distinguish the combinations gue, gui /ge/, /gi/ from güe, güi /gwe/, /gwi/, e.g. vergüenza, lingüística.
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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 ...
Acute accent in multiple computer fonts. Gray letters indicate o kreska in the provided font. Notice that kreska in gray letters are steeper than acute accent in black letters. Also in Adobe HeiTi Std and SimSun, the stroke goes from bottom-left (thicker) to top-right (thinner), showing the rising nature of the tone; however, the acute accent ...
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) can be used to represent sound correspondences among various accents and dialects of the English language. These charts give a diaphoneme for each sound, followed by its realization in different dialects. The symbols for the diaphonemes are given in bold, followed by their most common phonetic values.
The Unicode standard does not specify or create any font (), a collection of graphical shapes called glyphs, itself.Rather, it defines the abstract characters as a specific number (known as a code point) and also defines the required changes of shape depending on the context the glyph is used in (e.g., combining characters, precomposed characters and letter-diacritic combinations).