Terminology: Accent characters

Non-English accents are added to basic letter glyphs such as acute ´, circumflex ˆ, caronˇ, grave `, ring or angstrom, tilde ˜, umlaut or diaresis ¨, cedilla ¸, ogonek, inverted breve, breve, stroke, horn, hook and macron ¯.

Symbol	Symbol name	Symbol design description
Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú Ýý	Acute	North east facing dash above character.
Ââ Êê Îî Ôô Ûû	Circumflex	Upwards pointing arrow above character.
Ǎǎ Ǐǐ Ǒǒ Šš Ǔǔ	Caron	Also known as inverted circumflex. Downwards pointing arrow above character.
Àà Èè Ìì Òò Ùù	Grave	North west facing dash above character.
Åå	Ring or Ångström	Circle immediately above character (also known as Norwegian aa).
Ãã Ññ Õõ	Tilde	Wave-like dash above character.
Ää Ëë Ïï Öö Üü Ÿÿ	Umlaut or Diaeresis	Two dots above character.
Çç	Cedilla	Half-moon immediately below character, open to left.
Ąą Ęę Įį Ǫǫ Ųų	Ogonek	Half-moon immediately below character, open to right.
Ȃȃ Ȇȇ Ȏȏ Ȓȓ	Inverted breve	Bowl shape above character.
Ăă Ĕĕ Ĭĭ Ŏŏ Ŭŭ	Breve	Inverted bowl shape above character.
Ⱥ Ƀ Ȼȼ	Stroke	Stroke through letters.
Ơơ	Horn	Horn points up from right of character.
Ɓ Ƈƈ Ɗ Ƒ Ɲ Ƥ	Hook	Hook points down from varied positions on the character.
Āā Ēē Ḡḡ Īī Ōō Ūū	Macron	Raised horizontal line above the character.
µ	Micro	Lowercase Greek letter mu.
ª	Ordf	Lower case letter "a" in raised position.
º	Ordm	Lower case letter "o" in raised position.
Øø	Slash	Letter "O" with a diagonal line (also known as Norwegian O-slash)
ı	Dotless i	Letter "i" without dot.
ə	Schwa	Un stressed and toneless neutral vowel sound.
Ææ	Diphthong (two vowels) of letters "a" and "e".	Typically Norwegian.