Natlang Uses of Caron

Caron is also known as háček or haček. It originated from dot above in Czech orthography.[1] Note that the caron is easily confused with the similar looking breve ˘, especially in small font sizes.

Caron in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Caron

ˇ

◌̌

Ǎ

ǎ

Č

č

Ď

ď

DŽ

Dž

dž

Ě

ě

U+02C7

U+030C

U+01CD

U+01CD

U+010C

U+010D

U+010E

U+010F

U+01C4

U+01C5

U+01C6

U+011A

U+011B

Caron

Combining Caron

Latin Letter Capital A With Caron

Latin Letter Small A With Caron

Latin Capital Letter C With Caron

Latin Small Letter C With Caron

Latin Capital Letter D With Caron

Latin Small Letter D With Caron

Latin Capital Letter Dz With Caron

Latin Capital Letter D With Small Letter Z With Caron

Latin Small Letter Dz With Caron

Latin Capital Letter E With Caron

Latin Small Letter E With Caron

Note: May be confused with Modifier Letter Down Arrowhead, ˅ (U+02C5).

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the d.

Ǧ

ǧ

Ȟ

ȟ

Ǐ

ǐ

ǰ

Ǩ

ǩ

Ľ

ľ

Ň

ň

U+01E6

U+01E7

U+021E

U+021F

U+01CF

U+01D0

U+01F0

​ U+01E8

U+01E9

U+013D

U+013E

U+0147

U+0148

Latin Capital Letter G With Caron

Latin Small Letter G With Caron

Latin Capital Letter H With Caron

Latin Small Letter H With Caron

Latin Capital Letter I With Caron

Latin Small Letter I With Caron

Latin Small Letter J With Caron

Latin Capital Letter K With Caron

Latin Small Letter K With Caron

Latin Capital Letter L With Caron

Latin Small Letter L With Caron

Latin Capital Letter N With Caron

Latin Small Letter N With Caron

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the Ll.

Ǒ

ǒ

Ř

ř

Š

š

Ṧ

ṧ

Ť

ť

Ǔ

ǔ

Ǚ

U+01D1

U+01D2

U+0158

U+0159

U+0160

U+0161

U+1E66

U+1E67

U+0164

U+0165

U+01D3

U+01D4

U+01D9

Latin Capital Letter O With Caron

Latin Small Letter O With Caron

Latin Capital Letter R With Caron

Latin Small Letter R With Caron

Latin Capital Letter S With Caron

Latin Small Letter S With Caron

Latin Capital Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Small Letter S With Caron And Dot Above

Latin Capital Letter T With Caron

Latin Small Letter T With Caron

Latin Capital Letter U With Caron

Latin Small Letter U With Caron

Latin Capital Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron

Note: The caron looks actually like an apostrophe placed to the right of the ascender of the t.

ǚ

Ž

ž

Ǯ

ǯ

U+01DA

U+017D

U+017E

U+01EE

U+01EF

Latin Small Letter U With Diaeresis And Caron

Latin Capital Letter Z With Caron

Latin Small Letter Z With Caron

Latin Capital Letter Ezh With Caron

Latin Small Letter Ezh With Caron

Natlang Examples

Uses of Caron

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Change of manner of articulation	Czech	Řř /r̝/	This is a raised non-sonorant trill. Unaccented Rr stands for /r/.[2]
Palatal phoneme	Czech	Ďď /ɟ/, Ěě /(j)ɛ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/	Ěě stands for an /ɛ/ that makes a previous Dd, Nn, Tt be /ɟ, ɲ, c/, a previous Bb, Ff, Pp, Vv be /bj, fj, pj, vj/, and a previous Mm /mɲ/. This letter is not found in other positions.[3]
	Slovak	Ďď /ɟ/, Ľľ /ʎ/, Ňň /ɲ/, Ťť /c/	In Slovak handwriting ď, ľ and ť have an actual caron instead of an apostrophe.[4]
Postalveolar consonant	Czech, Latgalian, Latvian	Čč /tʃ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/	Unaccented Cc stands for /ts/ in Czech, Latvian and Latgalian.
	Livonian	Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/
	Slovak	Čč /tʃ/, DŽdž /dʒ/, Šš /ʃ/, Žž /ʒ/
Uvular consonant	Heiltsuk-Oowekyala (Heiltsuk dialect, official orthography and Rath's orthography)	Ǧǧ /ɢ/, Ǧv ǧv /ɢʷ/, X̌x̌ /χ/, X̌v x̌v /χʷ/	Note that X̌x̌ is not a precomposed letter.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet