˨

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˨ U+02E8, ˨
MODIFIER LETTER LOW TONE BAR
˧
[U+02E7]
Spacing Modifier Letters ˩
[U+02E9]
A staveless variant is obsolescent.

Translingual

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Letter

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˨

  1. (IPA) Mid-low tone.

Usage notes

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  • 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.

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