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A caron / ˈ k ær ə n / KARR-ən. [1] or háček (/ ˈ h ɑː tʃ ɛ k, ˈ h æ tʃ ɛ k, ˈ h eɪ tʃ ɛ k / HAH-chek, HATCH-ek, HAY-chek), [a] is a diacritic mark ( ̌) placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation.
Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif. The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative /ʃ/ or similar voiceless retroflex fricative /ʂ/.
The grapheme Ř, ř (R with caron, example of Czech pronunciation: "řeka" ⓘ) is a letter used in the alphabets of the Czech and Upper Sorbian languages. It was also used in proposed orthographies for the Silesian language. It has been used in academic transcriptions for rhotic sounds.
The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron, also known as háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak, kvačica in Serbo-Croatian, and strešica in Slovene) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant [t͡ʃ] like the English ch in the word chocolate.
In some modern non-standard orthographies of Greek dialects, such as Cypriot Greek, Griko, and Tsakonian, a caron (ˇ) may be used on some consonants to show a palatalized pronunciation. [11] [12] They are not encoded as precombined characters in Unicode, so they are typed by adding the U+030C ̌ COMBINING CARON to the Greek letter. Latin ...
J̌ (minuscule: ǰ) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from J with the addition of a caron (háček). It is used in some phonetic transcription schemes, e.g. ISO 9, to represent the sound [].
The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (Czech: háček, Slovak: mäkčeň, Slovene: strešica, Serbo-Croatian: kvačica).It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j.
Majuscule and minuscule ě.. The grapheme Ě, ě (E with caron) is used in Czech and Sorbian alphabets, in Pinyin, in Javanese, in Sundanese and in Proto-Slavic notation.. Sound: the incisors are alveolers to strange the velar rhogeal vowel, to make a voiceless vowel, mid-back opening at the incisors.