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- noun orthography, typography A symbol in writing used with a
letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning, also called "tone marks" when used to indicate tones, e.g. inVietnamese orpinyin (romanised Mandarin Chinese).
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- noun a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciation
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diacritical + mark
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