Jump to content

˦

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

˦ U+02E6, ˦
MODIFIER LETTER HIGH TONE BAR
← ˥
[U+02E5] 		Spacing Modifier Letters ˧ →
[U+02E7]
A staveless variant is obsolescent.

Translingual

[edit]

Letter

[edit]

˦

  1. (IPA) Mid-high tone.

Usage notes

[edit]
  • In the illustrations of the IPA Handbook, this letter may come before a word or syllable to indicate prosodic pitch, and after a word or syllable to indicate lexical tone.
  • When this letter occurs in ligature with other tone letters, they together indicate the pitch contour of the tone. For example, ˦ means a level mid-high tone, and ˦˥˩ means one that begins mid-high, goes high and ends low.

Synonyms

[edit]

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

See also

[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=˦&oldid=81558048"