Dotted circle

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

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):

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• 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.^{[citation needed]}

• Unicode input

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