diaeresis
Sign in to saveAlso known as umlaut, trema, diæresis, dieresis, ¨, ◌̈, diaeresis above, dieresis above
diacritic (U+0308) of two dots written horizontalement above a base letter, used to denote the separation of two consecutive vowels, or to replace the 2nd letter of a digraph modifying the pronunciation of the base letter
Wikidata facts
- Image
- IPA Unicode 0x0308.svg
- Has use
- umlaut
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- different from
- two dots
- Commons category
- Diaeresis
- topic has template
- Template:Letters with diaeresis
- TeX string
- \"
- Unicode code point
- 0308
- Unicode block
- Combining Diacritical Marks
- Unicode character name
- COMBINING DIAERESIS
- HTML entity
- ̈
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Encyclopedic overview
Diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -EER-) is a diacritical mark consisting of two dots (◌̈) that indicates that two adjacent vowel letters are separate syllables – a vowel hiatus (also called a diaeresis) – rather than a digraph or diphthong.
It consists of a two dots diacritic placed over a letter, generally a vowel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “diaeresis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.