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overdot

Diacritical mark

EntitydiacriticQ16798246

Also known as dot above · ˙ · ◌̇

Instance of: diacritic
Subclass of: dot

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When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot primarily refers to the glyphs "combining dot above", and "combining dot below" which may be combined with some letters of the extended Latin alphabets in use in a variety of languages. Similar marks are used with other scripts.

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Unicode character: ˙ unicode code point: 02D9 · html entity: &dot;, &DiacriticalDot;
◌̇ applies to part: combining character
Opposite of: ◌̣

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2 identifiers linking overdot across the web's reference databases

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