Hook above

For other uses of "hook", seeHook (disambiguation).

For the IPA symbol, seeglottal stop.

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Hook above
U+0309̉COMBINING HOOK ABOVE

The hook inTimes New Roman(top) andCalibri(bottom)

Alexandre de Rhodes'sDictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum(Vietnamese–Portuguese–Latin dictionary) showingbíwithout itstittleandbỉwith both a hook and tittle.

Intypesetting,thehook above(Vietnamese:dấu hỏi) is adiacriticmark placed on top of vowels in theVietnamese Alpha bet.In shape it looks like a tinyquestion markwithout the dot underneath, or a tinyglottal 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 thecircumflexin conventional Vietnamese orthography. If Vietnamese characters are unavailable, it is often replaced by a question mark after the vowel (VIQRencoding).

This diacritic functions as atonemarker, indicating a "mid falling" tone (hỏi): which is "dipping" (˨˩˥) in Southern Vietnamese or "falling" (˧˩) in Northern Vietnamese;seeVietnamese language § Regional variation: Tones.The Southern "dipping" tone is similar to the questioningintonationin English.

The hook above can be used as atonemarker, but is not regarded as part of the Alpha bet.

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 atU+0309̉COMBINING HOOK ABOVE

See also

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

External links

• More information for typographers