Dotted circle

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Dotted circle
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
	accent
	acute´
	double acute˝
	grave`
	double grave ̏
	circumflexˆ
	caron, háčekˇ
	breve˘
	inverted breve ̑
	cedilla¸
	diaeresis, umlaut¨
	dot·
	palatal hook ̡
	retroflex hook ̢
	hook above ̉
	horn ̛
	iota subscript ͅ
	macronˉ
	ogonek, nosinė˛
	perispomene ͂
	overring˚
	underring˳
	rough breathing῾
	smooth breathing᾿
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
	apostrophe’
	bar◌̸
	colon:
	comma,
	full stop/period.
	hyphen˗
	prime′
	tilde~
Diacritical marks in other scripts
	Arabic diacritics
	Early Cyrillic diacritics
	kamora ҄
	pokrytie ҇
	titlo ҃
	Hebrew diacritics
	Indic diacritics
	anusvaraं ং ଂ ം
	avagrahaऽ ঽ ଽ ఽ ഽ ྅
	chandrabinduँ ఁ ྃ
	nuqta़
	virama् ് ్ ್ ් ်
	visargaः ঃ ଃ ஃ
	Gurmukhī diacritics
	Khmer diacritics
	Thai diacritics
	IPA diacritics
	Japanese kana diacritics
	dakuten ﾞ
	handakuten ﾟ
	Syriac diacritics
Related
	Dotted circle◌
	Punctuation marks
	Logic symbols
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The dotted circle, in Unicode U+25CC ◌ DOTTED CIRCLE (HTML ◌), is a typographic character used to illustrate the effect of a combining mark, such as a diacritic mark.^[1] In Windows, it is possible to use the key combination Alt+9676 to produce the character.

Illustration[]

A Unicode combining mark combines with a preceding character. When used as stand-alone, it would combine unintentionally with a preceding character (possibly a space):

Diacritic ̒ used alone between regular spaces
Diacritic ◌̒ used after a character

Using the generic dotted circle character also shows the relative positioning of the diacritic.

External links[]

Dotted circle on fileformat.info

References[]

^ "Chapter 17. About the Code Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Version 6.2. Unicode, Inc. 2012-09-26. p. 273. Retrieved 2015-03-28. Combining characters are shown with a dotted circle. […] the relative position of the dotted circle indicates an […] approximate location of the base character in relation to the combining mark. […]

[unicode-1] "Chapter 17. About the Code Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Version 6.2. Unicode, Inc. 2012-09-26. p. 273. Retrieved 2015-03-28. Combining characters are shown with a dotted circle. […] the relative position of the dotted circle indicates an […] approximate location of the base character in relation to the combining mark. […]

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