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˨
- (IPA) Mid-low tone.
- 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-low tone, and ˨˩˧ means one that begins mid-low, drops to low and ends mid.