diacritical mark

English

Etymology

diacritical + mark

Noun

diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)

1. (orthography, typography) A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. in Vietnamese or pinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese).

Synonyms

• diacritic

Translations

symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning

• Arabic: شَكْل‎ m (šakl), شَكْلَة‎ f (šakla)
• Catalan: signe diacrític (ca) m, diacrític (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 附加符號, 附加符号 (fùjiā fúhào), 讀音符號, 读音符号 (dúyīn fúhào)

• Czech: diakritické znaménko (cs) n, diakritický znak m
• Danish: diakritisk tegn n
• Esperanto: diakrita signo
• Finnish: tarke (fi), diakriittinen merkki (fi)
• French: signe diacritique m, diacritique (fr) m
• Galician: signo diacrítico m
• German: diakritisches Zeichen (de) n, Diakritikum (de) n, Diakritikon (de) n
• Greek: διακριτικό σημείο n (diakritikó simeío)
• Hebrew: ניקוד‎ (he) m (nikud)
• Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m (mātrā)

• Hungarian: diakritikus jel
• Icelandic: komma (is) f
• Irish: comhartha idirdhealaitheach m
• Italian: segno diacritico m
• Japanese: ダイアクリティカルマーク (daiakuritikarumāku), 字上符 (じじょうふ, jijōfu)
• Polish: znak diakrytyczny m
• Portuguese: acento diacrítico m, acento (pt) m
• Romanian: semn diacritic (ro) n, diacritic (ro)
• Russian: диакрити́ческий знак (ru) m (diakritíčeskij znak)
• Spanish: signo diacrítico m, diacrítico (es) m
• Swedish: diakritiskt tecken n, diakrit c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: dấu phụ