Speaking only of HTML tags, you might be thinking of (the HTML version of) "ruby" characters, which isn't dots, but does allow for annotatation: https://en.wik

Speaking only of HTML tags, you might be thinking of (the HTML version of) "ruby" characters, which isn't dots, but does allow for annotatation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character#HTML_markup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character#HTML_markup With CSS `text-emphasis` we can do the dots you are speaking of: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-emphasis/ https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-emphasis/ Probably there are other useful bits of HTML/CSS for Asian languages. (right to left and/or vertical writing, anyone? I always wanted to fart around with pretty-printed Chinese poems and, like, calligraphy script fonts with procedurally generated jitter.) Edit: there are also Unicode entities for these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_mark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_mark