diacritical hook noun5 •Any specific, hamiform diacritic. •An ogonek (˛). •A retroflex hook (̢).Such [r-coloring] may also be represented by adding a diacritical hook to a vowel letter [ᶒ, ɚ, ᶗ], or by making use of Kenyon’s “hooked schwa” [˞]. — 1958 •A cedilla (¸).In the new Turkish alphabet each sound is represented by a single letter, sometimes with diacritical hooks. — 1981 •other similar diacritics formsdiacritical hooks