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Definition of Diacritical

Diacritical
Diacritic Di`a*crit"ic, Diacritical Di`a*crit"ic*al, a. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to separate, distinguish; dia` through + ? to separate. See Critic.] That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, [=a], [a^], ["a], [=o], [o^], etc. ``Diacritical points.' --Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. --A. J. Ellis.

Meaning of Diacritical from wikipedia

- [ ] are used here, see this page. A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to...
- most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode also contains many precomposed...
- Combining Diacritical Marks is a Unicode block containing the most common combining characters. It also contains the character "Combining Grapheme Joiner"...
- Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols is a Unicode block containing arrows, dots, enclosures, and overlays for modifying symbol characters. Its block...
- Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement is a Unicode block containing combining characters for the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet, Medievalist notations, and...
- (See English orthography § History.) Though limited, the following diacritical marks in English may be encountered, particularly for marking in poetry:...
- Texts of the Baháʼí Faith use a standard system of orthography to romanize Persian and Arabic script. The system used in Baháʼí literature was set in 1923...
- U+0315 COMBINING COMMA ABOVE RIGHT   ‍̦ U+0326 COMBINING COMMA BELOW Diacritical mark in Romanian, Latvian, Livonian ‚ U+201A SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK...
- arrows can be found in the Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks Extended, Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols, Halfwidth and Fullwidth...
- The apostrophe (’, ' ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In...