Hook above
In typesetting, the hook above (Vietnamese: dấu hỏi) is a diacritic mark placed on top of vowels in the Vietnamese alphabet. In shape it looks like a tiny question mark without the dot underneath, or a tiny glottal stop (ʔ). For example, a capital A with a hook is "Ả", and a lower case "u" with a hook is "ủ". The hook is usually written to the right of the circumflex in conventional Vietnamese orthography. If Vietnamese characters are unavailable, it is often replaced by a question mark after the vowel (VIQR encoding).
This diacritic functions as a tone marker, indicating a "mid falling" tone (hỏi): which is "dipping" (˨˩˥) in Southern Vietnamese or "falling" (˧˩) in Northern Vietnamese; see Vietnamese language § Regional variation: Tones. The Southern "dipping" tone is similar to the questioning intonation in English.
The hook above can be used as a tone marker, but is not regarded as part of the alphabet.
Letters with hook above
- Hook above ◌̉
Vietnamese: Ả ả - Ẩ ẩ
- Ẳ ẳ
- Ẻ ẻ
- Ể ể
- Ỉ ỉ
- Ỏ ỏ
- Ổ ổ
- Ở ở
- Ủ ủ
- Ử ử
- Ỷ ỷ
Unicode
Apart from precomposed characters, in multiple scripts, the combining diacritical mark is encoded at U+0309 ̉ COMBINING HOOK ABOVE
See also
- Horn (diacritic) (dấu móc)
- Hook (diacritic)
External links
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- ◌́ ◌̋ acute, double acute
- ◌᷄ apex
- ◌̆ ◌̑ breve, inverted breve
- ◌̌ caron, háček
- ◌̧ cedilla
- ◌̂ circumflex
- ◌̈ diaeresis, umlaut, other
- ◌̇ ◌̣ dot
- ◌̀ ◌̏ grave, double grave
- ◌̉ hook above
- ◌̡ ◌̢ palatal hook, retroflex hook
- ◌̛ horn
- ◌ͅ iota subscript
- ◌̄ macron
- ◌̨ ogonek, nosinė
- ◌̊ ◌̥ overring, underring
- ◌͂ perispomene
- ◌͗ sicilicus
- ◌̃ tilde
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- ◌’ apostrophe
- ◌̸ bar
- ◌: colon
- ◌, comma
- ◌. full stop/period
- ◌˗ hyphen
- ◌′ prime
- ^ caret (computing)
- ° degree symbol
- ~ tilde § Mathematics
- ◌ dotted circle (placeholder glyph character)
- combining character § Unicode ranges
- English terms with diacritical marks
- Punctuation marks
- Category: Diacritics
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