diacritical mark
diacritical mark noun: a symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
Noun
diacritical mark (plural diacritical marks)
- A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
- 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 (¸).2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025
- Synonyms:
- diacritic, diacritical
diacritical mark meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sinhala
diacritical mark in Hindi
- symbol
- मात्रा mātrā, विशेषक चिह्न viśeṣak cihna
diacritical mark in Urdu
- symbol
- حَرَکَت harakat, حَرَکات harakāt, اِعْراب i'rāb
diacritical mark in Punjabi
- symbol
- بَھتّ bhatt, بَھتّاں bhattāṉ
diacritical mark in Sinhala
- diacritical mark
- පිලි pili
More languagesFewer languages
- diacritical mark in Tagalog
- tuldik
- diacritical mark in Arabic
- شَكْل šakl, شَكْلَة šakla, عَلَامَة تَشْكِيل ʕalāmat taškīl
- diacritical mark in Thai
- เครื่องหมายการออกเสียง krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-ɔ̀ɔk-sǐiang
- diacritical mark in Vietnamese
- dấu phụ
Synonyms of diacritical mark
Forms of diacritical mark
| plural | diacritical marks |
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Questions about diacritical mark
- What does diacritical mark mean?
- Diacritical mark means a symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.
- What is diacritical mark in Hindi?
- Diacritical mark in Hindi is मात्रा (mātrā), विशेषक चिह्न (viśeṣak cihna). See Diacritical mark meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is diacritical mark?
- Diacritical mark is a noun.
- What is the plural of diacritical mark?
- The plural of diacritical mark is diacritical marks.
Words near diacritical mark in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: diacritical mark (page history and authors); පිලි (Sinhala) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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