The horn ( vi, dấu móc or ) is a
diacritic
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mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the
Vietnamese alphabet
The Vietnamese alphabet ( vi, chữ Quốc ngữ, lit=script of the National language) is the modern Latin writing script or writing system for Vietnamese. It uses the Latin script based on Romance languages originally developed by Portuguese m ...
to give ơ and ư,
unrounded
In phonetics, vowel roundedness is the amount of rounding in the lips during the articulation of a vowel. It is labialization of a vowel. When a ''rounded'' vowel is pronounced, the lips form a circular opening, and ''unrounded'' vowels are pro ...
variants of the
vowel
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represented by the basic letter. In Vietnamese, they are rarely considered as diacritics; but rather, the characters ''ơ'' and ''ư'' are considered as different letters from ''o'' and ''u''.
Letters with horn
Encodings
In
Unicode
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, horn is encoded as a combining mark, and precomposed letters.
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Precombined characters in Unicode and
HTML codes:
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and
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See also
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Hook (diacritic)
In typesetting, the hook or tail is a diacritic mark attached to letters in many alphabets. In shape it looks like a hook and it can be attached below as a descender, on top as an ascender and sometimes to the side. The orientation of the h ...
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Acute accent
The acute accent (), , is a diacritic used in many modern written languages with alphabets based on the Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. For the most commonly encountered uses of the accent in the Latin and Greek alphabets, precomposed ...
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Apostrophe
The apostrophe ( or ) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, the apostrophe is used for two basic purposes:
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Latin-script diacritics
Vietnamese language
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