diacritic

The Vietnamese language is written with marks — diacritics — that represent different tones.

Bold, bright letters decorated with the diacritics that denote tones in the Vietnamese language advertised the dishes on sale.

He originally spelled Ikea with an acute accent on the “e,” but dropped the fake diacritic in the 1960s.

Exclamation points, interrobangs and innumerable French diacritics were all part of his patois.

A trema is a diacritic mark that consists of two dots and is placed over a letter, “naïve” in the strip.