geminated, written by doubling a single letter grapheme: for , for , for etc., or by doubling the first letter of a grapheme cluster: for , for , etc. The phonemes and can appear on the surface as geminates: bridzs ('bridge'). (For the list of examples and exceptions, see Hungarian dz and dzs.) Hungarian orthography, unlike that of the surrounding Slavic languages, does not use háčky or any other consonant diacritics. Instead, the letters c, s, z are used alone (, , ) or combined in the digraphs cs, sz, zs (, , ), while y is used only in the digraphs ty, gy, ly, ny as a palatalization marker to write the sounds , , (formerly ), . The most distinctive allophones are: becomes if between a voiceless obstruent and a word boundary (e.g. lopj 'steal'). becomes e.g. between voiced obstruents, such as dobj be 'throw (one/some) in' may become between two vowels (e.g. tehát 'so'), after front vowels (e.g. ihlet 'inspiration'), and word-finally after back vowels (e.g. doh 'musty') if it is not deleted (which it often is; e.g. méh 'bee', but even then, some dialects still pronounce it, e.g., ). According to Gósy, it becomes (rather than ) in words such as pech, ihlet, technika ('bad luck, inspiration, technology/technique'), while it becomes postvelar fricative in words such as doh, sah, jacht, Allah, eunuch, potroh. becomes when geminated, in certain words: dohhal ('with blight'), peches ('unlucky'). {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |+ Examples |- ! Phoneme ! colspan="2" | Example ! Translation |- | | pipa | | 'pipe' |- | | bot | | 'stick' |- | | toll | | 'feather' |- | | dob | | 'throw', 'drum' |- | | kép | | 'picture' |- | | gép | | 'machine' |- | | fa | | 'tree' |- | | vág | | 'cut' |- | | szó | | 'word' |- | | zöld | | 'green' |- | | só | | 'salt' |- | | zseb | | 'pocket' |- | | jó | | 'good' |- | | hó | | 'snow' |- | | cél | | 'goal', 'target' |- | | edző | | 'coach' |- | | csak | | 'only' |- | | dzsessz | | 'jazz' |- | | ló | | 'horse' |- | | tyúk | | 'hen' |- | | gyár |