Dot (diacritic)

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Dot
Diacritics in Latin & Greek
accent
acute( ´ )
double acute( ˝ )
grave( ` )
double grave(  ̏ )
breve( ˘ )
inverted breve(  ̑ )
caron, háček( ˇ )
cedilla( ¸ )
circumflex( ˆ )
diaeresis, umlaut( ¨ )
dot( · )
hook, hook above(   ̡   ̢  ̉ )
horn(  ̛ )
iota subscript(  ͅ  )
macron( ¯ )
ogonek, nosinė( ˛ )
perispomene(  ͂  )
ring( ˚, ˳ )
rough breathing( )
smooth breathing( ᾿ )
Marks sometimes used as diacritics
apostrophe( )
bar( ◌̸ )
colon( : )
comma( , )
period( . )
hyphen( ˗ )
prime( )
tilde( ~ )
Diacritical marks in other scripts
Arabic diacritics
Early Cyrillic diacritics
kamora(  ҄ )
pokrytie(  ҇ )
titlo(  ҃ )
Gurmukhī diacritics
Hebrew diacritics
Indic diacritics
anusvara( )
chandrabindu( )
nukta( )
virama( )
chandrakkala( )
IPA diacritics
Japanese diacritics
dakuten( )
handakuten( )
Khmer diacritics
Syriac diacritics
Thai diacritics
Related
Dotted circle
Punctuation marks
Logic symbols
Ȧ ȧ Ǡ ǡ
Ċ ċ
Ç̇ ç̇ Ć̣ ć̣
Č̣ č̣
Ė ė Ė́ ė́
Ė̃ ė̃
Ġ ġ
İ
i̇̀ i̇́ i̇̃ į̇́ į̇̃
j̇̃
Ŀ ŀ
Ȯ ȯ
Ȱ ȱ
Q̣̇ q̣̇ Q̣̈ q̣̈
Ṡ̃ ṡ̃
U̇̄ u̇̄
ṿ
Ż ż

When used as a diacritic mark, the term dot is usually reserved for the Interpunct ( · ), or 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 Central European languages and Vietnamese.

Overdot

Language scripts or transcription schemes that use the dot above a letter as a diacritical mark:

The overdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called anusvara.

In mathematics and physics, when using Newton's notation the dot denotes the time derivative as in . However, today this is more commonly written with a prime or using Leibniz's notation. In addition, the overdot is one way used to indicate an infinitely repeating set of numbers in decimal notation, as in , which is equal to the fraction 13, and or , which is equal to 17.

Underdot

The underdot is also used in the Devanagari script, where it is called nukta.

Encoding

In Unicode, the dot is encoded at:

and at:

There is also:

Pre-composed characters:

  • U+0226 Ȧ   U+0227 ȧ
  • U+1EA0   U+1EA1
  • U+1EB6   U+1EB7
  • U+1E02   U+1E03
  • U+010A Ċ   U+010B ċ
  • U+1E0A   U+1E0B
  • U+0116 Ė   U+0117 ė
  • U+1EC6   U+1EC7
  • U+1E1E   U+1E1F
  • U+0120 Ġ   U+0121 ġ
 
  • U+1E22   U+1E23
  • U+0130 İ  
  • U+1ECA   U+1ECB
  • U+1E38   U+1E39
  • U+1E40   U+1E41
  • U+1E44   U+1E45
  • U+022E Ȯ   U+022F ȯ
  • U+1ECC   U+1ECD
  • U+0230 Ȱ   U+0231 ȱ
  • U+1E56   U+1E57
 
  • U+1E58   U+1E59
  • U+1E5C   U+1E5D
  • U+1E9B   U+1E60
  • U+1E62   U+1E63
  • U+1E66   U+1E67
  • U+1E6A   U+1E6B
  • U+1EE4   U+1EE5
  • U+1E86   U+1E87
  • U+1E8A   U+1E8B
  • U+1E8E   U+1E8F
 
  • U+017B Ż   U+017C ż
  • U+01E0 Ǡ   U+01E1 ǡ
  • U+1EAC   U+1EAD
  • U+1E04   U+1E05
  • U+A73E   U+A73F
  • U+1E0C   U+1E0D
  • U+1EB8   U+1EB9
  • U+1E24   U+1E25
  • U+1E32   U+1E33
  • U+1E36   U+1E37
 
  • U+013F Ŀ   U+0140 ŀ
  • U+1E42   U+1E43
  • U+1E46   U+1E47
  • U+1ED8   U+1ED9
  • U+1EE2   U+1EE3
  • U+1E5A   U+1E5B
  • U+1E60   U+1E61
  • U+1E64   U+1E65
  • U+1E68   U+1E69
  • U+1E6C   U+1E6D
 
  • U+1EF0   U+1EF1
  • U+1E7E   U+1E7F ṿ
  • U+1E88   U+1E89
  • U+1EF4   U+1EF5
  • U+1E92   U+1E93

See also

References

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