diacritical mark

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

   diakritisches Zeichen, Diakritikum, Diakritikon

   диакрити́ческий знакdiakritíčeskij znak

   діакрити́чний знакdiakrytýčnyj znak

   a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation

1. In Portuguese, every word stressed on the antepenultimate syllable has a diacritical mark.

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2. The Vietnamese alphabet uses diacritical marks to produce an accurate transcription for tones despite the limitations of the Latin alphabet.

   deDas vietnamesische Alphabet verwendet diakritische Zeichen, um trotz der eingeschränkten Möglichkeiten des lateinischen Alphabets eine genaue Transkription der Töne zu ermöglichen.

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