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Typesetting

Typesetting is the composition of text by means of types.Typesetting requires the prior process of designing a font and storing it in some manner...

, the hook (Vietnamese: dấu hỏi) is a diacritic

Diacritic

A diacritic is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph. The term derives from the Greek διακριτικός . Diacritic is both an adjective and a noun, whereas diacritical is only an adjective. Some diacritical marks, such as the acute and grave are often called accents...

 mark placed on top of vowels in the Vietnamese alphabet

Vietnamese alphabet

The Vietnamese alphabet, called Chữ Quốc Ngữ , usually shortened to Quốc Ngữ , is the modern writing system for the Vietnamese language...

. In shape it looks like a tiny question mark without the dot underneath. For example, a capital A with a hook is "Ả", and a lower case "u" with a hook is "ủ". It functions as a tone marker. Vowels with this symbol are pronounced with a falling then rising tone. The hook is usually written to the right of the circumflex

Circumflex

The circumflex is a diacritic used in the written forms of many languages, and is also commonly used in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus —a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη...

 in conventional Vietnamese orthography. If Vietnamese characters are unavailable, it is often replaced by a question mark after the vowel (VIQR encoding).

Unicode

Apart from precomposed characters, in multiple scripts, the combining diacritical mark is encoded at

See also

• Horn (diacritic)
  Horn (diacritic)
  The horn is a diacritic mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the Vietnamese alphabet to give ơ and ư, unrounded variants of the vowel represented by the basic letter...
  
   (dấu móc)
• Ɓ ɓ
• Ƈ ƈ
• Ɗ ɗ
• Ɠ ɠ
• Ƙ ƙ
• Ƥ ƥ
• Ƭ ƭ
• Ƴ ƴ

External links

• More information for typographers