Tilde

This article is about the punctuation and diacritical mark. For the Swedish singer, see Tilde (singer).
"~" redirects here. For the album, see ~ (album).

~ ◌̃
Tilde (symbol), Combining tilde (diacritic)
In UnicodeU+007E ~ TILDE
U+0303 ◌̃ COMBINING TILDE
Related
See alsoDouble tilde (disambiguation)
U+301C 〜 WAVE DASH
This page uses notation for orthographic or other linguistic analysis. For the meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page.

The tilde (/ˈtɪldə/, also /ˈtɪld, -di, -deɪ/)[1] is a grapheme ⟨˜⟩ or ⟨~⟩ with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish tilde, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning 'title' or 'superscription'.[2] Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation.

  1. ^ "tilde". The Chambers Dictionary (9th ed.). Chambers. 2003. ISBN 0-550-10105-5.
  2. ^ "tilde". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.