Dotted circle

The dotted circle, in Unicode U+25CC ◌ DOTTED CIRCLE (HTML ◌), is a typographic character used to illustrate the effect of a combining mark, such as a diacritic mark.[1] In Windows, it is possible to use the key combination Alt+9676 to produce the character.

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Dotted circle
Diacritics in Latin & Greek accent acute´ double acute˝ grave` double grave ̏ circumflexˆ caron, háčekˇ breve˘ inverted breve  ̑   cedilla¸ diaeresis, umlaut¨ dot· palatal hook  ̡ retroflex hook  ̢ hook above, dấu hỏi ̉ horn ̛ iota subscript ͅ  macronˉ ogonek, nosinė˛ perispomene ͂  overring˚ underring˳ rough breathing῾ smooth breathing᾿ Marks sometimes used as diacritics apostrophe’ bar◌̸ colon: comma, full stop/period. hyphen˗ prime′ tilde~ Diacritical marks in other scripts Arabic diacritics Early Cyrillic diacritics kamora ҄ pokrytie ҇ titlo ҃ Hebrew diacritics Indic diacritics anusvaraं ং ଂ ം avagrahaऽ ঽ ଽ ఽ ഽ ྅ chandrabinduँ ఁ ྃ nuqta़ virama् ് ్ ್ ් ် visargaः ঃ ଃ ஃ Gurmukhī diacritics Khmer diacritics Thai diacritics IPA diacritics Japanese kana diacritics dakuten ﾞ handakuten ﾟ Syriac diacritics Related Dotted circle◌ Punctuation marks Logic symbols

Illustration

A Unicode combining mark combines with a preceding character. When used as stand-alone, it would combine unintentionally with a preceding character (possibly a space):

• Diacritic ̒ used alone between regular spaces
• Diacritic ◌̒ used after a character

Using the generic dotted circle character also shows the relative positioning of the diacritic.

External links

• Dotted circle on fileformat.info

References

1. "Chapter 17. About the Code Charts" (PDF). The Unicode Standard. Version 6.2. Unicode, Inc. 2012-09-26. p. 273. Retrieved 2015-03-28. Combining characters are shown with a dotted circle. […] the relative position of the dotted circle indicates an […] approximate location of the base character in relation to the combining mark. […]