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diacritic

sign combined to a base letter, digit, or symbol, in order to modify its reading or interpretation
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Summary

diacritic is a grapheme[1]. diacritic draws 9,579 Wikipedia views per month (grapheme category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: character[3], additional sign[4], version[5], allograph[6], string[7]
  • Commons category: Diacritics[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Diacritics[9], Category:Diacritical marks[10]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[11], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[12], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 3[15]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://stackoverflow.com/tags/diacritics[16], https://tex.stackexchange.com/tags/accents[17]
  • Used by: diacritical orthography[18]
  • Different from: accent[19], stress[20]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[21]
  • P14541: 21ZmMH[22]
  • P14892: Diacritic[23]

Why It Matters

diacritic has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] diacritic is known by 127 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 22d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14892 → Diacritic
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14892: Diacritic"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 21ZmMH
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Verdy p · 2026-06-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Specialkeys Swedish keyboard.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Image: Specialkeys Swedish keyboard.svg"
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