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Hacek

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Noun

1. hacek, wedge

a diacritical mark (an inverted circumflex) placed above certain letters (such as the letter c) to indicate pronunciation

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Hacek

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noun
phonetics
a symbol to indicate pronunciation that looks like a circumflex that is upside down and that is placed above a letter in Slavonic and Baltic languages
noun
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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Hacek

see synonyms of hacek
noun
a mark (ˇ) used over certain consonant letters in the orthography of some languages to indicate a specific sound, or used in certain systems of symbols for representing speech sounds

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Hacek

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n.
A diacritical mark (ˇ) that is used over certain letters, such as č, to indicate quality of pronunciation. Also called caron.

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