Letters with caron

The grapheme Ž (minuscule: ž) is formed from Latin Z with the addition of caron (, , , , ). It is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiced postalveolar fricative, the sound of English g in mirage, s in vision, or Portuguese and French j. In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with , but the lowercase ž is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. In addition, ž is used as the romanisation of Cyrillic ж in ISO 9 and scientific transliteration.

The grapheme Čč (Latin C with caron) is used in various contexts, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar affricate consonant like the English ch in the word chocolate. The caron is known as háček in Czech, mäkčeň in Slovak, kvačica in Serbo-Croatian, and strešica in Slovene. It is represented in Unicode as U+010C (uppercase Č) and U+010D (lowercase č).

class=skin-invert-image|right|thumb|Š in upper- and lowercase, sans-serif and serif The grapheme Š, š (S with caron) is used in various contexts representing the sh sound like in the word show, usually denoting the voiceless postalveolar fricative or similar voiceless retroflex fricative . In the International Phonetic Alphabet this sound is denoted with ʃ or ʂ, but the lowercase š is used in the Americanist phonetic notation, as well as in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet. It represents the same sound as the Turkic letter Ş and the Romanian letter Ș (S-comma), the Hebrew and Yiddish letter ש, th

A caron ( ) or háček ( , plural háčeks or háčky), is a diacritic mark () placed over certain letters in the orthography of some languages, to indicate a change of the related letter's pronunciation. Typographers tend to use the term caron, while linguists prefer the Czech word ''''.

thumb|Ř in upper- and lowercase|alt=Řř

thumb|D with caron in Doulos SIL The grapheme Ď (minuscule: ď) is a Latin letter used in the Czech and Slovak alphabets used to denote , the voiced palatal plosive (precisely alveolo-palatal), a sound similar to British English d in dew. It was also used in Polabian and Belanda Bor language of South Sudan. The majuscule of the letter (Ď) is formed from Latin D with the addition of a háček; the minuscule of the letter (ď) has a háček modified to an apostrophe-like stroke instead of a wedge. When collating, Ď is placed right after regular D in the alphabet.

thumb|N with caron thumb|right|alt=Latin small and capital letter n with caron, and small capitals ‘vášeň’|Latin small and capital letter n with caron, and the word "vášeň" (passion)

thumb|Majuscule and minuscule ě.

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thumb|class=skin-invert-image|L with caron in Doulos SILĽ (minuscule: ľ) is a grapheme found officially in the Slovak alphabet and in some versions of the Ukrainian Latin alphabet. It is an L with a caron diacritical mark, normally but simplified to look like an apostrophe with L, and is pronounced as palatal lateral approximant , similar to the "lj-" sound in Ljubljana or million.

thumb|K with caron in Doulos SIL Ǩ (K with a caron) is a letter used in the Laz language and in the Skolt Saami language, where it represents and respectively. The Unicode codepoints for this letter are U+01E8 ("Ǩ") for the capital letter, and U+01E9 ("ǩ") for the lowercase letter.

Ǧ (minuscule: ǧ), called G with caron, is a letter used in several Latin orthographies.

J̌ (minuscule: ǰ), called J with caron, is a letter of the Latin alphabet, derived from J with the addition of a caron (háček). It is used in some phonetic transcription schemes, e.g. ISO 9, to represent the sound . It is also used in the Latin scripts or in the romanization of various Iranian and Pamir languages (Avestan, Pashto, Yaghnobi, and others), Armenian, Georgian, Berber/Tuareg, and Classical Mongolian. The letter was invented by Lepsius in his Standard Alphabet on the model of š and ž to avoid the confusion caused by the ambiguous pronunciation of the letter j in European languages.

Ǯ (minuscule: ǯ) is a modified letter of the Latin alphabet, formed from ezh (ʒ) with the addition of a caron.

Cyrillic letter

thumb|alt=Latin Capital and Lowercase letter H with caron|Latin Capital and Lowercase letter H with caron The grapheme Ȟ, ȟ (H with caron) is a letter used in the Finnish Kalo language and the Lakota language. It represents a voiceless velar fricative in the former and a voiceless uvular fricative in the latter.