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Wiktionary

  1. n. 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).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

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  1. diacritical + mark (Wiktionary)

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  1. diacritic

hypernyms (1)

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  1. mark

hyponyms (12)

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  1. hacek
  2. umlaut
  1. tilde
  2. macron
  1. accent mark
  2. wedge
  1. circumflex
  2. dieresis
  1. cedilla
  2. accent
  1. breve
  2. diaeresis

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  1. macron
  2. circumflex
  3. tilde
  1. umlaut
  2. wedge
  3. diaeresis
  1. dieresis
  2. hacek
  3. accent
  1. accent mark
  2. breve
  3. cedilla
  1. diacritic
  2. HO's
  3. unaccented
  1. diacritical
  2. point

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