háček

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1. communicationsA caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.

   háček used to signify the third tone (wǔ — ‘five’)

   2002, Torbjörn Lundmark, Quirky QWERTY, page 34

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   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

   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

   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

   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

   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

   Synonyms: caret, caron, chevron, čiriklo, clicka, hat, hook, inverted caret

1. A surname.

   Violas were school instruments and were got ready for each rehearsal like sardines in a row by the porter, Mr Háček, in his own lodge.

   1993, Jana Marhounová, Czech Music in the Web of Life (Empatie), page 125