U+0309 Combining Hook Above
U+0309 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Combining Diacritical Marks in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and inherits its
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0309 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In typesetting, the hook above (Vietnamese: dấu hỏi) is a diacritic mark placed on top of vowels in the Vietnamese alphabet. In shape it looks like a tiny question mark without the dot underneath, or a tiny glottal stop (ʔ). For example, a capital A with a hook is "Ả", and a lower case "u" with a hook is "ủ". The hook is usually written to the right of the circumflex in conventional Vietnamese orthography. If Vietnamese characters are unavailable, it is often replaced by a question mark after the vowel (VIQR encoding).
This diacritic functions as a tone marker, indicating a "mid falling" tone (hỏi): which is "dipping" (˨˩˥) in Southern Vietnamese or "falling" (˧˩) in Northern Vietnamese; see Vietnamese language § Regional variation: Tones. The Southern "dipping" tone is similar to the questioning intonation in English.
The hook above can be used as a tone marker, but is not regarded as part of the alphabet.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 777 |
| UTF-8 | CC 89 |
| UTF-16 | 03 09 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 03 09 |
| URL-Quoted | %CC%89 |
| HTML hex reference | ̉ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌̉ |
| alias | hoi |
| Encoding: WINDOWS-1258 (hex bytes) | D2 |
| AGL: Latin-4 | hookabovecomb |
| AGL: Latin-5 | hookabovecomb |
| Adobe Glyph List | hookabovecomb |
| Adobe Glyph List | hookcmb |
Related Characters
- Latin Capital Letter A with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter A with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter E with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter E with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter E with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter E with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter I with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter I with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter O with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter O with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter O with Circumflex and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter O with Horn and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter O with Horn and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter U with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter U with Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter U with Horn and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter U with Horn and Hook Above
- Latin Capital Letter Y with Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter Y with Hook Above
Confusables
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Complete Record
| Property | Value |
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| 1.1 (1993) | |
| COMBINING HOOK ABOVE | |
| NON-SPACING HOOK ABOVE | |
| Combining Diacritical Marks | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Inherited | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Above | |
| none | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| ✘ | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Maybe | |
| Yes | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Maybe | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Transparent | |
| Combining Mark | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Combining Hook Above | |
| R |