Natlang Uses of Hook Above

The hook above (or dấu hỏi) is only used in the Vietnamese Quốc Ngữ orthography, where it marks a tone. Note that this diacritic can be hard to see or discern from other diacritics, especially in small font sizes. When it is stacked on top of another diacritic, it may be cut off in some applications, especially when it appears on a capital letter.

Hook Above in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Hook Above

◌̉

Ả

ả

Ẩ

ẩ

Ẳ

ẳ

Ẻ

ẻ

Ể

ể

Ỉ

ỉ

U+0309

U+1EA2

U+1EA3

U+1EA8

U+1EA9

U+1EB2

U+1EB3

U+1EBA

U+1EBB

U+1EC2

U+1EC3

U+1EC8

U+1EC9

Combining Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter A With Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter E With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter E With Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter I With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter I With Hook Above

Ỏ

ỏ

Ổ

ổ

Ở

ở

Ủ

ủ

Ử

ử

Ỷ

ỷ

U+1ECE

U+1ECF

U+1ED4

U+1ED5

U+1EDE

U+1EDF

U+1EE6

U+1EE7

U+1EEC

U+1EED

U+1EF6

U+1EF7

Latin Capital Letter O With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter O With Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter O With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter O With Circumflex And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter O With Horn And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter O With Horn And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter U With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter U With Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter U With Horn And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter U With Horn And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter Y With Hook Above

Latin Small Letter Y With Hook Above

Natlang Examples

Uses of Hook Above

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Falling-rising (dipping) tone	Vietnamese	Ảả /aː˧˩˧/, Ẳẳ /a˧˩˧/, Ẩẩ /ə˧˩˧/, Ẻẻ /ɛ˧˩˧/, Ểể /e˧˩˧/, Ỉỉ /i˧˩˧/, Ỏỏ /ɔ˧˩˧/, Ổổ /o˧˩˧/, Ởở /əː˧˩˧/, Ủủ /u˧˩˧/, Ửử /ɨ˧˩˧/, Ỷỷ /i˧˩˧/	There are many exceptions to the phonemic values of these letters.[1]

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet