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Translingual
Symbol
◌
- (typography) A placeholder representing the base glyph for combining diacritic marks.
Usage notes
A diacritic mark will be combined with this symbol to illustrate how it appears relative to a base letter, without requiring a base letter to actually be used. For example, the circumflex accent may be displayed as ⟨◌̂⟩, the Devanagari vowel sign ū as ⟨ ू⟩.
Synonyms
- ⟨ـ⟩, commonly used to display vowel diacritics for Arabic