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Click ď, ť, ň or ů directly, add „ “ or Kč from Special, then press Copy.

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Czech has been written with marks over its letters for about 600 years. The first Czech words appear as glosses and short notes in manuscripts of the 12th and 13th centuries. In the early 15th century the church reformer Jan Hus wrote De orthographia Bohemica, a spelling system that gave Czech sounds their own letters: a dot over a letter for sounds Latin did not have, and an acute accent for long vowels. In the Brethren orthography of the 16th century, used in the Bible of Kralice (1579–1593), the dot became the small hook Czechs call the háček, and printing made it standard. The language of that Bible served as the model for literary Czech for a long time afterwards. The ring of ů has its own history: an old long ó turned into the diphthong uo, and scribes wrote the o as a small ring over the u. The ring stayed in the spelling after the sound changed. Linguists of the Czech National Revival, at the end of the 18th and in the first half of the 19th century, codified further reforms; in the mid-19th century, for example, ouřad became úřad (office). The list of vyjmenovaná slova, the words that take y after b, l, m, p, s, v and z, entered the spelling rules in 1902. Today the alphabet has 42 letters, with ch counted as one letter between h and i, and every háček letter has been in Unicode since version 1.0 in 1991.

Czech ř is a sound almost no other language has. Linguists describe it as a raised alveolar trill: the tongue trills as for r while making the buzz of ž, both at once, not one after the other. It is the sound in the surname Dvořák and in rybáři (fishermen), and Czech keeps it apart from both r and ž. After p, t or k and at the end of a word it loses its voice and comes out breathy, as in tři (three) and lékař (doctor). Czech children typically master ř last of all their sounds, often only around age five or six. The letter ř is best known from Czech; Upper Sorbian and a few other languages written in Latin letters also use it, though for different sounds.

On a Czech physical keyboard, the háček and čárka letters sit on the number keys. The standard Czech layout is QWERTZ, with Y and Z swapped compared with English keyboards, and the keys that type digits elsewhere give ě, š, č, ř, ž, ý, á, í and é. The digits themselves need Shift. ú and ů have their own keys under the right little finger, and the key next to Backspace is a dead key: press it and then a letter for an acute accent, or add Shift for a háček. That is how ň, ď and ť are typed. A laptop bought abroad has none of this, which is where this page helps: all 42 letters, including ch, ů, ď, ť and ň, are on screen. There is also a texting habit behind missing accents. An SMS in plain Latin letters holds 160 characters, but a single č or ř switches the message to a 16-bit encoding that holds only 70, which is 90 fewer. For years many Czechs texted without háčky and čárky to save money, and some phone messaging apps still offer to send SMS without them. Before Unicode, Czech text on computers was split between ISO 8859-2 on Unix and Windows-1250 on Windows, two encodings that differ in about three letters of the Czech alphabet. Czech quotation marks „ “ and Kč, the sign of the Czech koruna, are in the Special popup.

One Letter, Two Sounds at Once

Czech ř trills like r and buzzes like ž in the same moment. Almost no other language has this sound.

42 lettersř = r + ž at oncevoiceless in třimastered at age 5–6
The Czech ř

ř — a trill and a buzz together

řŘDvořákrybáři

Linguists call it a raised alveolar trill: the tongue trills as for r and makes the buzz of ž at the same time. Czech keeps it apart from both r and ž.

rybáři — fishermen · Dvořák — a common surname
Voiceless after p, t, k

In tři it almost hisses

třipřítellékař

Next to a voiceless consonant or at the end of a word, ř loses its voice. The tongue does the same thing, but the result is breathy, close to a hiss.

tři — three · přítel — friend · lékař — doctor
Learned last

The final sound children master

Řehoři,řekni ř

Czech children usually learn ř after every other sound, often only around age five or six. Tongue twisters like this one are used for practice.

Řehoři, řekni ř — Řehoř, say ř
On a Czech keyboard

ř has a key of its own

řˇ + RŘ

On the Czech QWERTZ layout, lowercase ř is on the key that types 5 on English keyboards. The capital Ř comes from the háček dead key followed by Shift and R.

ˇ then Shift + R → Ř
FAQ

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42. Besides the 26 basic Latin letters, it counts the letters with a čárka (á é í ó ú ý), with a háček (č ď ě ň ř š ť ž), ů with its ring, and the pair ch as one letter.
Czech treats ch as one letter for one sound, and it has its own place in the alphabet, between h and i. In a Czech dictionary, words beginning with ch come after all the words beginning with h.
On the physical Czech QWERTZ keyboard, lowercase ř is on the key that types 5 on English keyboards; the digit needs Shift. For capital Ř, press the háček dead key with Shift, then Shift and R. Here you can click ř and Ř directly.
A trilled r and the ž sound made at the same time, not one after the other. Linguists call it a raised alveolar trill. You hear it in the surname Dvořák and in rybáři (fishermen).
After a voiceless consonant such as p, t or k, and at the end of a word, ř loses its voice and sounds breathy, almost like a hiss. Compare tři (three) and lékař (doctor) with the voiced ř in rybáři.
They sound the same. ú is written almost only at the start of a word or of a word root in a compound, as in úřad (office). ů never starts a word, as in svůj (one's own), so a capital Ů appears only in text written in all capitals.
An old long ó turned into the diphthong uo. Scribes abbreviated it by writing the o as a small ring above the u, and the ring stayed in the spelling after the sound changed.
Its ancestor is the dot that Jan Hus put over letters in De orthographia Bohemica in the early 15th century. In the Brethren orthography of the 16th century the dot became the hook, and printing spread it. Háček means small hook.
In Czech and Slovak printing, the háček on ť and ď (and on ľ in Slovak) is usually reduced to a small stroke next to the letter. It is still the same háček, and the letter is a single character, not a letter plus an apostrophe.
It marks a softened consonant before e. After d, t and n it means ďe, ťe, ňe, as in dě, tě, ně; after b, p, v and f it means bje, pje, vje, fje. It is a trace of palatalization in Old Czech.
Mostly they sound the same. After h, ch, k and r Czech writes y, after soft consonants (such as ž, š, č, ř, c, j) it writes i. After d, t and n the letter changes the sound: dy, ty, ny are hard, di, ti, ni are soft, as in dítě (child). After b, l, m, p, s, v and z it depends on the word: the vyjmenovaná slova, the listed words that take y, have been part of the spelling rules since 1902.
Yes, in writing. být means to be and bít means to beat; nabýt means to acquire and nabít means to charge or load. The pairs are pronounced the same, so only the spelling tells them apart.
Yes. Strč prst skrz krk means stick a finger through the neck. Czech r and l can carry a syllable on their own between consonants, which is why words like vlk (wolf) and krk (neck) need no vowel.
Nearly always on the first syllable. The čárka does not mark stress: it marks a long vowel, so dobrý (good) is stressed on do even though its long vowel is ý.
An SMS in plain Latin letters holds 160 characters, but one č or á switches it to a 16-bit encoding that holds 70. Many Czechs dropped diacritics to save money, and some phone messaging apps still offer to do it.
The standard Czech layout is QWERTZ, like German. A Czech QWERTY variant that keeps Y and Z in their English places also exists, along with a programmer variant that restores US punctuation.
From Czech. It was introduced in Karel Čapek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), and Čapek credited his brother Josef with the word. It comes from robota, meaning forced labour or drudgery.
Czech opens a quote low and closes it high: „takto“. Single quotes work the same way: ‚takto‘. Both pairs and the Kč sign for the Czech koruna are in the Special popup.

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