Phrase guide

diacritical mark

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A symbol in writing used with a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, typography, writing

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: diacritic, diacritical

Antonyms: none provided

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noun

Meaning 2

a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: diacritic

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: mark

Narrower terms: accent, accent mark, breve, cedilla, circumflex, hacek, wedge, macron, tilde, umlaut, dieresis, diaeresis

History

Etymology

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Across languages

Translations

80 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: shenjë diakritike — symbol
  • Arabic: شَكْل (šakl) — symbol
  • Arabic: شَكْلَة (šakla) — symbol
  • Arabic: عَلَامَة تَشْكِيل (ʕalāmat taškīl) — symbol
  • Belarusian: дыякрыты́чны знак (dyjakrytýčny znak) — symbol
  • Bulgarian: диакрити́чен знак (diakritíčen znak) — symbol
  • Catalan: signe diacrític — symbol
  • Catalan: diacrític — symbol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 附加符號 /附加符号 (fùjiā fúhào) — symbol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 讀音符號 /读音符号 (dúyīn fúhào) — symbol
  • Chinese Mandarin: 變音符號 /变音符号 (biànyīn fúhào) — symbol
  • Czech: diakritické znaménko — symbol
  • Czech: diakritický znak — symbol
  • Danish: diakritisk tegn — symbol
  • Dutch: diakritisch teken — symbol
  • Esperanto: diakrita signo — symbol
  • Esperanto: diakritilo — symbol
  • Estonian: diakriitiline märk — symbol
  • Finnish: tarke — symbol
  • Finnish: diakriittinen merkki — symbol
  • French: signe diacritique — symbol
  • French: diacritique — symbol
  • Galician: signo diacrítico — symbol
  • Georgian: დიაკრიტიკული ნიშანი (diaḳriṭiḳuli nišani) — symbol
  • German: diakritisches Zeichen — symbol
  • German: Diakritikum — symbol
  • German: Diakritikon — symbol
  • Greek: διακριτικό σημείο (diakritikó simeío) — symbol
  • Hebrew: ניקוד — symbol
  • Hebrew: נִקּוּד (nikúd) — symbol
  • Hindi: मात्रा (mātrā) — symbol
  • Hindi: विशेषक चिह्न (viśeṣak cihna) — symbol
  • Hungarian: diakritikus jel — symbol
  • Hungarian: mellékjel — symbol
  • Icelandic: stafmerki — symbol
  • Icelandic: framburðartákn — symbol
  • Ido: diakritiko — symbol
  • Irish: comhartha idirdhealaitheach — symbol
  • Irish: comhartha diaicritice — symbol
  • Italian: segno diacritico — symbol
  • Japanese: ダイアクリティカルマーク (daiakuritikaru māku) — symbol
  • Japanese: 字上符 (jijōfu) — symbol
  • Kazakh: диакритикалық таңба (diakritikalyq tañba) — symbol
  • Korean: 발음 구별 기호 (bareum gubyeol giho) — symbol
  • Korean: 발음 구별 부호 (bareum gubyeol buho) — symbol
  • Latvian: diakritiskā zīme — symbol
  • Lithuanian: diakritinis ženklas — symbol
  • Macedonian: дијакритички знак (dijakritički znak) — symbol
  • Māori: tohu whakahua — symbol
  • Norwegian Bokmål: diakritisk tegn — symbol
  • Old English: accent — symbol
  • Iranian Persian: نِشانِهٔ حَرِکَتگُذاری (nešâne-ye harekat-gozâri) — symbol
  • Polish: znak diakrytyczny — symbol
  • Portuguese: acento diacrítico — symbol
  • Portuguese: acento — symbol
  • Punjabi: بَھتّ (bhatt) — symbol
  • Punjabi: بَھتّاں (bhattāṉ) — symbol
  • Romanian: semn diacritic — symbol
  • Romanian: diacritic — symbol
  • Russian: диакрити́ческий знак (diakritíčeskij znak) — symbol
  • Serbo-Croatian: дијакритички знак — symbol
  • Serbo-Croatian: dijakritički znak — symbol
  • Slovak: diakritické znamienko — symbol
  • Slovak: diakritická značka — symbol
  • Slovene: diakritično znamenje — symbol
  • Slovene: diakritični znak — symbol
  • Spanish: signo diacrítico — symbol
  • Spanish: marca diacrítica — symbol
  • Swedish: diakritiskt tecken — symbol
  • Swedish: diakrit — symbol
  • Tagalog: tuldik — symbol
  • Thai: เครื่องหมายการออกเสียง (krʉ̂ʉang-mǎai-gaan-ɔ̀ɔk-sǐiang) — symbol
  • Ukrainian: діакрити́чний знак (diakrytýčnyj znak) — symbol
  • Urdu: حَرَکَت (harakat) — symbol
  • Urdu: حَرَکات (harakāt) — symbol
  • Urdu: اِعْراب (i'rāb) — symbol
  • Vietnamese: dấu phụ — symbol
  • Welsh: arwyddnod — symbol
  • Welsh: marc diacritig — symbol
  • Yiddish: דיאַקריטישע סימנים (dyakritishe simonem) — symbol