Language
- Hook (rhetoric), a rhetorical device that "hooks" the listener
- Hook above, a diacritical mark above letters in the Vietnamese alphabet
- Hook (diacritic), a diacritical mark attached to letters in various alphabets
- Palatal hook, a hook attached below curled to the left
- Narrative hook, a literary technique
- Rhotic hook, a diacritical mark attached to symbols in the International phonetic alphabet.
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