HAČEK Definition & Meaning

��č��

or ��á·č��

[ hah-chek ]

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Phonetics, Orthography.

a diacritic (ˇ) placed over a letter in some languages, as Czech and Lithuanian, and in some systems of phonetic transcription, especially to indicate that a sound is palatalized.

��áč��

/ ˈ��ɑː��ʃɛ�� /

a diacritic mark (ˇ) placed over certain letters in order to modify their sounds, esp used in Slavonic languages to indicate various forms of palatal articulation, as in the affricate č and the fricative trill ř used in Czech

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1950–55; < Czech ��áč��, diminutive of ��á�� hook < German; hook ¹

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from Czech

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A fuzzy ��č�� below the nose is impossible to counterfeit, and its presence on some of my classmates intimated a whole world of adult responsibility.

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