Meet the diacritical marks

One appearance, different encodings

é can be written as U+00E9, or as e (U+0065) followed by COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT (U+0301). These forms are canonically equivalent. Unicode normalization can convert between composed and decomposed forms.

A spacing accent symbol is not the same character as a combining mark. The dotted circle in Unicode charts shows where a mark sits; it is not part of the mark itself.

Marks in this reference

This list covers the 25 distinct marks in our precomposed A to Z Latin data. It is not a catalog of every Unicode combining mark.

Copy a combining mark to add after a letter.

• Quick copy for combining acute accentacute accent
  Example: Á · Browse A characters
• ̆U+0306breve
  Example: Ă · Browse A characters
• ̮U+032Ebreve below
  Example: Ḫ · Browse H characters
• ̌U+030Ccaron
  Example: Č · Browse C characters
• ̧U+0327cedilla
  Example: Ç · Browse C characters
• ̂U+0302circumflex accent
  Example: Â · Browse A characters
• ̭U+032Dcircumflex accent below
  Example: Ḓ · Browse D characters
• ̦U+0326comma below
  Example: Ș · Browse S characters
• Quick copy for combining diaeresisdiaeresis
  Example: Ä · Browse A characters
• ̤U+0324diaeresis below
  Example: Ṳ · Browse U characters
• ̇U+0307dot above
  Example: Ċ · Browse C characters
• ̣U+0323dot below
  Example: Ḅ · Browse B characters
• ̋U+030Bdouble acute accent
  Example: Ő · Browse O characters
• ̏U+030Fdouble grave accent
  Example: Ȁ · Browse A characters
• ̀U+0300grave accent
  Example: À · Browse A characters
• ̉U+0309hook above
  Example: Ả · Browse A characters
• ̛U+031Bhorn
  Example: Ơ · Browse O characters
• ̑U+0311inverted breve
  Example: Ȃ · Browse A characters
• ̄U+0304macron
  Example: Ā · Browse A characters
• ̱U+0331macron below
  Example: Ḇ · Browse B characters
• ̨U+0328ogonek
  Example: Ą · Browse A characters
• ̊U+030Aring above
  Example: Å · Browse A characters
• ̥U+0325ring below
  Example: Ḁ · Browse A characters
• ̃U+0303tilde
  Example: Ã · Browse A characters
• ̰U+0330tilde below
  Example: Ḛ · Browse E characters

Still under editorial review

These families remain available as individual Unicode records in the explorer.

• inverted breve: U+0311 and its canonical composites are verified, but the source pack does not yet establish a sufficiently scoped current versus historical account of South Slavic accentology and its distinction from Greek perispomeni. Publishing from character names alone would overstate the usage evidence.
• hook below: U+0321 and U+0322 are verified, but a complete account of historical palatalized and retroflex hook notation, its current replacements and valid representative combinations has not been established from the authoritative phonetic sources. Their Unicode records remain searchable in the explorer.