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Dotted circle

Non-significant typographic character

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InUnicode, the dotted circle (◌) is a non-significant typographic character used to illustrate the effect of a combining mark, such as a diacritic mark.^[1] It can also be used to indicate a spot where a character ought to be, but it is seldom used for anything else.

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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.

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• Unicode input

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