dot aboveż
A single dot placed over the letter. Polish calls it kropka and uses it for ż, distinct from ź; Lithuanian ė is a long e; Maltese has ċ, ġ and ż; Turkish keeps the dot on the capital İ, which is a different letter from plain I. Old Irish type used it for lenition, where modern spelling writes bh, ch, dh and so on.
Combining mark: U+0307
Letters with dot above
How to type dot above
- Mac
- Option+w (ABC. Extended) then a
- Linux Compose
- Compose . a