Haĉek

Noun

noun

1. (rare, nonstandard) Alternative spelling of háček
• 2002, Andrew Zawacki, By Reason of Breakings, poem iv: “Diacritics”, page 28:Ask to be that diver falling haĉek into this wave.
• 2003 February 24, "Lee Sau Dan" (username), Re: Non-umlaut umlauts (see the original message), in

• BTW, Esperanto uses a “breve” on the “u”, i.e. Å­, not a haĉek.
• 2006 December 8th, Mary Betik Trojacek, Beyond Ellis Island, page 17:My father always wrote BÄ›tik with a little “v” called haĉek, above the “e”; MaruÅ¡aks placed the haĉek above the “s”.

Usage notes

The spelling haĉek employs a circumflex, rather than a háček. Use of the letter Ĉ is almost wholly restricted to Esperanto (where it denotes the same sound, , that Č does in háček); where haĉek occurs, it may be a conscious Esperantism. This spelling is very rare and, where it occurs, may be regarded as featuring an erroneous inversion of the háček diacritic: ˇ → ˆ.