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Translingual
Letter
˦
- (IPA) A letter representing a mid-high tone.
Usage notes
- 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, then goes high and ends low.
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See also
Tone letter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 