Meaning of háček | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of háček.
   alt-of, alternative
2. Haemophilus aphrophilus, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans (the former name of Haemophilus actinomycetemcomitans), Cardiobacterium hominis, Eikenella corrodens, Kingella kingae — five gram-negative bacilli that are typically regarded as fastidious or difficult to culture and which can cause bacterial endocarditis.
   attributive, often
3. A surname.
4. Rare spelling of háček.
   alt-of, rare, singular
5. A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.

Equivalents

Examples

“The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound.”

“Linguistic forms had to be set in ordinary roman type and the capital C of Cäxa had to be left without a háček.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Another orthographic practice […] was developed […] in the twentieth century: this is the adoption of the hacek for the representation of the Cypriot postalveolar fricatives and affricates, which are otherwise not distinguished by the normal characters of the Greek alphabet alone. It was not until very recently, therefore, that the spellings <σ̌>, <τσ̌>, <ζ̌> and <τζ̌>, for [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ] and [dʒ] respectively, became available.”

“My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.”

“For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.”

“There are the German system (Jelzin, Tschaikowsky), the Serbocroat(?) system (Jelcin, C<hácek>ernomirdin), and there used to be […] a common Scandinavian system that wasn’t always followed.”

“Lugazi (the “z” is with caron/hácek), or Lugazhi in transliterated Cyrillic.”

“There’s no “hácek” (inversed ^) either, which is a problem when writing about eastern European wines.”

“The library of the United States Congress have worked out their own transliteration system and although the “hačeks” does not figure in it, other diacritical signs are employed.”

“Gaj’s incentive for the graphical shape of his letters was a native source. This can be seen in his use of the tilde rather than the “haček” (ˇ), as is often incorrectly claimed.”

“The man gave his name as Alois Hacek, a post-office clerk.”

“In addition to the letters of the English alphabet, the Czech language has both vowels and consonants with acute accents and haċeks.”

“This leaves 96 possible printable characters, enough for uppercase and lowercase but not an extended set of altered characters (e.g., slash O) or diacritics (e.g., haċek).”

“It is called a haček or hachek or haċek, pronounced hotchek.”

“Here I will use ō, ū, ī, haċek letters č, š, ǰ, and ġ for the voiced counterpart of q.”

“Examples for the preceding phenomena include the following (full voicing is indicated by an understrike hac̬ek, i.e. [b̬], under the corresponding consonant; tenseness of r is rendered as [ꭋ], velarized [ʃ] is written as [ʃ̶]; unaspirated stops are marked with a reversed apostrophe after the consonants in question, i.e., [p‛]): […]”

“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.”

“Ask to be that diver falling haĉek into this wave.”

“BTW, Esperanto uses a “breve” on the “u”, i.e. ŭ, not a haĉek.”

“My father always wrote Bětik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; Marušaks placed the haĉek above the “s”.”

“HACEK organisms”

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