English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] diacritical mark
diacritical mark plural diacritical marks
( 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 [ edit ] Translations [ edit ]
symbol
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
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
