Caronhacek
Caron, also called háček, is a diacritic mark shaped like a small wedge or hook placed above certain letters in Latin-based alphabets. It is used to indicate a modification of pronunciation, often signaling a palatalized or postalveolar articulation, depending on the language. The name háček derives from Czech, meaning “little hook”; in English the diacritic is commonly referred to as caron or wedge.
The caron is widely used in Central and Southeast European orthographies. In Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian,
In digital text, carons can be encoded as precomposed characters, such as Č U+010C, č U+010D, Š U+0160, š U+0161,