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Translingual
Symbol
ˊ
- (IPA) a high floating tone.
- (IPA, obsolete) a rising tone.
Usage notes
(obsolete IPA): The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by Chao tone letters and tone diacritics.
See also
- ⟨ˏ⟩ (low rising tone)
Hokkien
Diacritical mark
ˊ
- (Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols) fifth tone (陽平 / 阳平 (yángpíng)).
Mandarin
Letter
ˊ
- The second tone (第二聲 / 第二声) of Mandarin Chinese in Zhuyin script, the 陽平聲 / 阳平声 (yángpíng shēng, “light level tone”).
See also
Nawdm
Pronunciation
Diacritical mark
ˊ
- A tone diacritic of the Nawdm alphabet. Tone is usually only written for pronouns. Although the acute is placed over vowel letters, as in the pronoun ɦá, it appears after the consonant letter in the pronouns bˊ, dˊ, lˊ, mˊ, nˊ, tˊ, vˊ.
- Coordinate term: ˋ
Pronoun
ˊ
- thou (2sg. subject)
Usage notes
In subject position, the pronoun vˊ may be reduced to its tone.
Skolt Sami
Letter
ˊ
- Alternative form of ʹ
