Hook above

For other meanings of hook, see Hook.

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Diacritics in Latin & Greek accent acute( ´ ) double acute( ˝ ) grave( ` ) double grave(  ̏ ) breve( ˘ ) inverted breve(  ̑ ) caron, háček( ˇ ) cedilla( ¸ ) circumflex( ˆ ) diaeresis, umlaut( ¨ ) dot( · ) hook, hook above(   ̡   ̢  ̉ ) horn(  ̛ ) iota subscript(  ͅ  ) macron( ¯ ) ogonek, nosinė( ˛ ) perispomene(  ͂  ) ring( ˚, ˳ ) rough breathing( ῾ ) smooth breathing( ᾿ ) Marks sometimes used as diacritics apostrophe( ’ ) bar( ◌̸ ) colon( : ) comma( , ) hyphen( ˗ ) tilde( ~ ) Diacritical marks in other scripts Arabic diacritics Early Cyrillic diacritics kamora(  ҄ ) pokrytie(  ҇ ) titlo(  ҃ ) Gurmukhī diacritics Hebrew diacritics Indic diacritics anusvara( ं ং ം ) chandrabindu( ँ ఁ ) nukta( ़ ) virama( ् ് ్ ් ್ ) chandrakkala( ് ) IPA diacritics Japanese diacritics dakuten( ﾞ ) handakuten( ﾟ ) Khmer diacritics Syriac diacritics Thai diacritics Related Dotted circle◌ Punctuation marks Logic symbols

Ả	ả
Ẩ	ẩ
Ẳ	ẳ
Ẻ	ẻ
Ể	ể
Ỉ	ỉ
Ỏ	ỏ
Ổ	ổ
Ở	ở
Ủ	ủ
Ử	ử
Ỷ	ỷ

The hook in Times New Roman (above) and Calibri (below)

Alexandre de Rhodes's Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (Vietnamese–Portuguese–Latin dictionary) showing bí without its tittle and bỉ with both a hook and tittle.

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. 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.

Unicode

Apart from precomposed characters, in multiple scripts, the combining diacritical mark is encoded at U+0309  ̉  COMBINING HOOK ABOVE (HTML ̉)

See also

• Horn (diacritic) (dấu móc)
• Hook (diacritic)

External links

• More information for typographers