Dotted circle

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Dotted circle
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( , ) hyphen( ˗ ) 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( ﾞ ) handakuten( ﾟ ) Khmer diacritics Syriac diacritics Thai diacritics Related Dotted circle◌ Punctuation marks Logic symbols
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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. In Windows, it is possible to use the key combination Alt+9676 to produce the character.

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):

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

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