diacritic

  1. Adjective.  distinguishing.
  2. Adjective.  (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.
  3. Noun.  A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

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