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diacritical mark plural diacritical marks
( orthography , typography ) letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
Synonyms: diacritic diacritical Hyponyms: accent accent mark ( synonymous in loose usage ) ; cedilla diaeresis röck döts tilde tone mark umlaut 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian [1] the original on 4 April 2025 :California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
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Albanian: shenjë diakritike f
Arabic: شَكْل m ( šakl ) , شَكْلَة f ( šakla ) , عَلَامَة تَشْكِيل f ( ʕalāmat taškīl )
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: дыякрыты́чны знак m ( dyjakrytýčny znak )
Bulgarian: диакрити́чен знак m ( diakritíčen znak )
Catalan: signe diacrític (ca) m diacrític (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 附加符號 / 附加符号 (zh) ( fùjiā fúhào ) , 讀音符號 / 读音符号 (zh) ( dúyīn fúhào ) , 變音符號 / 变音符号 (zh) ( biànyīn fúhào )
Czech: diakritické znaménko (cs) n diakritický znak m
Danish: diakritisk tegn n
Dutch: diakritisch teken (nl) n
Esperanto: diakrita signo diakritilo
Estonian: diakriitiline märk
Finnish: tarke (fi) , diakriittinen merkki
French: signe diacritique (fr) m diacritique (fr) m
Galician: signo diacrítico m
Georgian: დიაკრიტიკული ნიშანი ( diaḳriṭiḳuli nišani )
German: diakritisches Zeichen (de) n Diakritikum (de) n Diakritikon (de) n
Greek: διακριτικό σημείο n ( diakritikó simeío )
Hebrew: ניקוד / נִקּוּד (he) m ( nikúd )
Hindi: मात्रा (hi) m ( mātrā ) , विशेषक चिह्न m ( viśeṣak cihna )
Hungarian: diakritikus jel mellékjel (hu)
Icelandic: stafmerki n framburðartákn
Ido: diakritiko (io)
Irish: comhartha idirdhealaitheach m comhartha diaicritice m
Italian: segno diacritico m
Japanese: ダイアクリティカルマーク ( daiakuritikaru māku ) , 字上符 ( じじょうふ, jijōfu )
Kazakh: диакритикалық таңба ( diakritikalyq tañba )
Korean: 발음 구별 기호(發音區別記號) ( bareum gubyeol giho ) , 발음 구별 부호(發音區別符號) ( bareum gubyeol buho )
Latvian: diakritiskā zīme f
Lithuanian: diakritinis ženklas m
Macedonian: дијакритички знак m ( dijakritički znak )
Maori: tohu whakahua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: diakritisk tegn n
Old English: accent m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نِشانِهٔ حَرِکَتگُذاری ( nešâne-ye harekat-gozâri )
Polish: znak diakrytyczny m
Portuguese: acento diacrítico m acento (pt) m
Punjabi:
Shahmukhi: بَھتّ f ( bhatt ) , بَھتّاں f pl ( bhattāṉ ) ( direct, oblique )
Romanian: semn diacritic (ro) n diacritic (ro) n
Russian: диакрити́ческий знак (ru) m ( diakritíčeskij znak )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: дијакритички знак m
Roman: dijakritički znak m
Slovak: diakritické znamienko n diakritická značka f
Slovene: diakritično znamenje n diakritični znak m
Spanish: signo diacrítico m diacrítico (es) m
Swedish: diakritiskt tecken (sv) n diakrit (sv) c
Tagalog: tuldik
Thai: เครื่องหมายการออกเสียง ( krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-ɔ̀ɔk-sǐiang )
Ukrainian: діакрити́чний знак m ( diakrytýčnyj znak )
Urdu: حَرَکَت f ( harakat ) , حَرَکات pl ( harakāt ) , اِعْراب m ( i'rāb )
Vietnamese: dấu phụ
Welsh: arwyddnod m marc diacritig m
