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háček

name · noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk/
  • häʹchĕk
  • Estuary-English: [ˈhɑːt͡ʃɛk]
  • General-American: [ˈhɑt͡ʃɛk]
  • New-York-City: [ˈhɑət͡ʃɛk]
  • Boston, Northern-England: [ˈhaːt͡ʃɛk]
  • Australian: [ˈhaːt͡ʃek]
  • New-Zealand: [ˈhɐːt͡ʃek]
  • General-South-African: [ˈɦɑːt͡ʃɛk]
  • Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ˈhæt͡ʃɛk/
  • Geordie, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: hăʹchĕk
  • Received-Pronunciation: [ˈhæt͡ʃɛk]
  • Geordie, Scotland: [ˈhat͡ʃɛk]
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • New-York-City: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɑːtʃɛk
  • rhymes with -ætʃɛk

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A caron; a diacritical mark (ˇ) usually resembling an inverted circumflex, but in the cases of ď, Ľ, ľ, and ť resembling an apostrophe (’) instead.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, typography, writing

Examples

  • For examples of the usage of other forms of this term see Citations:háček, Citations:haček, Citations:hacek, Citations:haċek, Citations:hachek, Citations:hatcheck, Citations:hatschek, Citations:hǎcek, Citations:hatchek, Citations:hacheck, Citations:hac̬ek, Citations:haczek, Citations:háçek, Citations:hácek, Citations:haĉek, Citations:haceck and Citations:háčky.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

Across languages

Translations

58 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: كَارُون (kārūn) — háček diacritic
  • Arabic: كَارُون (karon) — háček diacritic
  • Catalan: hàtxek — háček diacritic
  • Catalan: anticircumflex — háček diacritic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 揚抑符 /扬抑符 (yángyìfú) — háček diacritic
  • Chinese Mandarin: 倒折音符 (dǎozhéyīnfú) — háček diacritic
  • Czech: háček — háček diacritic
  • Dutch: háček — háček diacritic
  • Esperanto: haĉeko — háček diacritic
  • Esperanto: hoketo — háček diacritic
  • Esperanto: dukorno — háček diacritic
  • Esperanto: v-hoketo — háček diacritic
  • Estonian: katus — háček diacritic
  • Finnish: hattu — háček diacritic
  • French: hatchek — háček diacritic
  • French: caron — háček diacritic
  • French: háček — háček diacritic
  • French: chevron — háček diacritic
  • French: accent hirondelle — háček diacritic
  • German: Hatschek — háček diacritic
  • German: Caron — háček diacritic
  • German: Krönchen — háček diacritic
  • Hungarian: hacsek — háček diacritic
  • Hungarian: fordított kalap — háček diacritic
  • Hungarian: pipa — háček diacritic
  • Icelandic: kría — háček diacritic
  • Italian: gancetto — háček diacritic
  • Italian: segno diacritico — háček diacritic
  • Italian: antiflesso — háček diacritic
  • Italian: pipa — háček diacritic
  • Italian: caron — háček diacritic
  • Italian: hatchek — háček diacritic
  • Italian: chevron — háček diacritic
  • Japanese: ハーチェク (hācheku) — háček diacritic
  • Korean: 반대 곡절 부호 (bandae gokjeol buho) — háček diacritic
  • Lakota: ičášleče — háček diacritic
  • Lithuanian: paukščiukas — háček diacritic
  • Malayalam: മീതൽ (mītal) — háček diacritic
  • Pannonian Rusyn: квачка (kvačka) — háček diacritic
  • Polish: haczyk — háček diacritic
  • Portuguese: caron — háček diacritic
  • Romani: ćiriklo — háček diacritic
  • Russian: га́чек (gáček) — háček diacritic
  • Russian: га́чка (gáčka) — háček diacritic
  • Serbo-Croatian: квачица — háček diacritic
  • Serbo-Croatian: ква̏ка — háček diacritic
  • Serbo-Croatian: kvačica — háček diacritic
  • Serbo-Croatian: kvȁka — háček diacritic
  • Slovak: mäkčeň — háček diacritic
  • Slovene: kljukica — háček diacritic
  • Slovene: strešica — háček diacritic
  • Spanish: carón — háček diacritic
  • Spanish: háček — háček diacritic
  • Swedish: hake — háček diacritic
  • Ukrainian: га́чек (háček) — háček diacritic
  • Ukrainian: гачо́к (hačók) — háček diacritic
  • Venetan: pipa — háček diacritic
  • Winnebago: wookanak — háček diacritic