Hook above
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Hook above | |
| U+0309 ̉ COMBINING HOOK ABOVE |
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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: 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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