Dictionary

háček en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhæt͡ʃɛk/ (Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
• [ˈɦɑːt͡ʃɛk] (General-South-African)
• [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk] (General-American)
• (UK) audio
• [ˈhaːt͡ʃɛk] (Boston, Northern-England)
• [ˈhat͡ʃɛk] (Geordie, Scotland)
• hăʹchĕk (Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland)
• [ˈhaːt͡ʃek] (Australia)
• [ˈhɑət͡ʃɛk] (New-York-City)
• (New-York-City) audio
• (Australia) audio
• [ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk] (Estuary-English)
• häʹchĕk
• /ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk/
• [ˈhæt͡ʃɛk] (Received-Pronunciation)
• [ˈhɐːt͡ʃek] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

Meanings

1. A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.
   • In the system used here and elsewhere in this article for Bantu tone, low syllables are unmarked, high syllables have an acute accent, and rising syllables a haček respectively; thus a, á, ǎ. 1966, Charles Ernest Bazell et al., editors, In Memory of J.R. Firth, page 205:
   • Good Teutonic Kitsch looks rather forlorn and out of place wearing a Bohemian háček over its shrunken hind quarters. But the high traditions of scholarship must be maintained, and on these pages Meester Kitsch will masquerade as Mr. Kič. 1956, Morris Halle, editor, For Roman Jakobson, page 332:
   • háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’) 2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34:
   • My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”. 2006, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:
   • Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available. 2005, Stavroula Varella, Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek, page 46:
   • For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.
   • The printer had no hatchek — the flattened “v” that appears over letters in Czech — to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks. 1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69:
   • Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček. 1951, Hans Jakob Polotsky, Notes on Gurage Grammar, page 5:
   • The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. 1948, Bohumil Emil Mikula, Progressive Czech (Bohemian), page 6:

Forms

Coordinates

circumflex (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · umlaut (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · bridge (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · hook (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · inverted breve (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · candrabindu (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · x (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · diaeresis (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · inverted double arch (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · horn (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · low line (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · acute accent (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · apostrophe (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · čárka (Czech diacritics) · inverted bridge (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · ogonek (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · solidus (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · cedilla (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · grave accent (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · seagull (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · comma (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · breve (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · tack (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · dot (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · minus (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · tilde (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · vertical line (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · ring (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · half ring (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · plus (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · left angle (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · stroke (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · macron (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · tečka (Czech diacritics) · square (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · overline (diacritics used in Latin-derived scripts) · kroužek (Czech diacritics)

Deriveds

háček coefficient · háček language · háčekless

Relateds

Ǎǎ Čč Ďď Ěě Ǧǧ Ȟȟ Ǐǐ J̌ǰ Ǩǩ Ľľ Ňň Ǒǒ Řř Šš Ťť Ǔǔ Ǚǚ Žž Ǯǯ DŽDždž DŽDždž

Synonyms

hook · strešica · hat · wedge · clicka · inverted caret · palatal hook · wing · čiriklo · caron · inverted hat · chevron · caret · mäkčeň · inverted circumflex

Translations (58)

ca anticircumflex (háček diacritic) · sk mäkčeň (háček diacritic) · pt caron (háček diacritic) · sl kljukica (háček diacritic) · ca hàtxek (háček diacritic) · ru га́чек (háček diacritic) · lt paukščiukas (háček diacritic) · es háček (háček diacritic) · et katus (háček diacritic) · eo dukorno (háček diacritic) · ko 반대 곡절 부호 (háček diacritic) · uk гачо́к (háček diacritic) · sh квачица (háček diacritic) · ru га́чка (háček diacritic) · uk га́чек (háček diacritic) · sv hake (háček diacritic) · it gancetto (háček diacritic) · de Hatschek (háček diacritic) · ja ハーチェク (háček diacritic) · sh kvȁka (háček diacritic) · win wookanak (háček diacritic) · es carón (háček diacritic) · fi hattu (háček diacritic) · fr accent hirondelle (háček diacritic) · is kría (háček diacritic) · cs háček (háček diacritic) · cmn 倒折音符 (háček diacritic) · ar كَارُون (háček diacritic) · eo haĉeko (háček diacritic) · fr háček (háček diacritic) · hu fordított kalap (háček diacritic) · pl haczyk (háček diacritic) · rsk квачка (háček diacritic) · sh kvačica (háček diacritic) · ml മീതൽ (háček diacritic) · it segno diacritico (háček diacritic) · vec pipa (háček diacritic) · hu hacsek (háček diacritic) · eo v-hoketo (háček diacritic) · lkt ičášleče (háček diacritic) · it hatchek (háček diacritic) · it chevron (háček diacritic) · sl strešica (háček diacritic) · de Caron (háček diacritic) · it pipa (háček diacritic) · eo hoketo (háček diacritic) · hu pipa (háček diacritic) · it caron (háček diacritic) · cmn 揚抑符 /扬抑符 (háček diacritic) · rom ćiriklo (háček diacritic) · sh ква̏ка (háček diacritic) · de Krönchen (háček diacritic) · nl háček (háček diacritic) · it antiflesso (háček diacritic) · ar كَارُون (háček diacritic) · fr chevron (háček diacritic) · fr hatchek (háček diacritic) · fr caron (háček diacritic)