Definition of "hatchek"

The Bathmoceratidae are largely straight shells of Whiterock age, first known from the Šarka (pronounced Sharka from a hatchek over the Š).

1988, Jost Wiedmann, Jürgen Kullmann, editors, Cephalopods Present and Past: O.H. Schindewolf Symposium, Tübingen 1985, page 20

The printer had no hatchek…to put over Dvořak’s R. So somebody laboriously inked in all the hatcheks.

1991, Peter Hugh Reed, American Record Guide, LIV:ii, page 69

The hatchek marks a rising tone.

2001, Felix K. Ameka, “Ideophones and the nature of the adjective word class in Ewe” in Typological Studies in Language XLIV: Ideophones, eds. Friedrich Karl Erhard Voeltz and Christa Kilian-Hatz, page 46, endnote 2