Diacritic

Diacritic: adj. and n. a diacritic mark or simply a diacritic is a graphic sign (e.g. dot, accent, cedilla) placed near a simple grapheme of the alphabet to indicate a different phonemic value or to distinguish homographs. Diacritics exist in Arabic, Devanagari, French and Hangul, among others.

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