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    An underscore or underline is a line drawn under a segment of text. In proofreading, underscoring is a convention that says "set this text in italic type"...
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  • A macron (/ˈmækrɒn, ˈmeɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel. Its name derives from Ancient...
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  • This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. The dakuten (Japanese:...
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    The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل)...
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  • This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. Diacritical...
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  • This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. The...
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  • This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. A cedilla...
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    This article contains Unicode emoticons or emojis. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of the...
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  • In the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing (Ancient Greek: δασὺ πνεῦμα, romanized: dasỳ pneûma or δασεῖα daseîa; Latin: spiritus...
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  • The ogonek (/əˈɡɒnɛk, -ək/ ə-GON-ek, -⁠ək; Polish: [ɔˈɡɔnɛk], "little tail", diminutive of ogon) is a diacritic hook placed under the lower right corner...
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    Shaddah (Arabic: شَدّة shaddah [ˈʃæd.dæ], "[sign of] emphasis", also called by the verbal noun from the same root, tashdid تشديد tashdīd "emphasis") is...
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  • The double acute accent (◌̋) is a diacritic mark of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is used primarily in Hungarian or Chuvash, and consequently it is...
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  • A ring diacritic may appear above or below letters. It may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in various contexts. The character...
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    The modifier letter apostrophe ʼ is a letter found in Unicode encoding, used primarily for various glottal sounds. The letter apostrophe is encoded at...
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  • Nunation (Arabic: تَنوِين, tanwīn), in some Semitic languages such as Literary Arabic, is the addition of one of three vowel diacritics (ḥarakāt) to a...
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    A breve (/ˈbriːv/ BREEV, less often /ˈbrɛv/ BREV, neuter form of the Latin brevis "short, brief") is the diacritic mark ◌̆, shaped like the bottom half...
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  • The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In...
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  • Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικό σύστημα...
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  • This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This article contains...
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  • This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. This page uses notation...
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  • The Unicode character ’ (U+2019 RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) is used for both a typographic apostrophe and a single right (closing) quotation mark. This...
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  • The hyphen-minus symbol - is the form of hyphen most commonly used in digital documents. On most keyboards, it is the only character that resembles a minus...
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  • An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an...
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  • The smooth breathing (Ancient Greek: ψιλὸν πνεῦμα, romanized: psilòn pneûma; Greek: ψιλή psilí; Latin: spiritus lenis) is a diacritical mark used in polytonic...
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