diesis vs graphic symbol

diesis and graphic symbol both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
diesis	Yes	No	No	No
graphic symbol	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, graphic symbol is a hypernym of diesis; that is, graphic symbol is a word with a broader meaning than diesis:

diesis: a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used
graphic symbol: a written symbol that is used to represent speech

Other hypernyms of diesis include character, graph, grapheme.

diesis (noun)	graphic symbol (noun)
a character used in printing to indicate a third cross reference or footnote after the asterisk and the dagger have been used	a written symbol that is used to represent speech