˩

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˩ U+02E9, ˩
MODIFIER LETTER EXTRA-LOW TONE BAR
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Spacing Modifier Letters ˪
A staveless variant is obsolescent.

Translingual

Letter

˩

  1. (IPA) Low 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 low tone, and ˩˧˩ means one that begins low, rises to mid and ends low.

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