˦

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˦ U+02E6, ˦
MODIFIER LETTER HIGH TONE BAR
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Spacing Modifier Letters ˧
A staveless variant is obsolescent.

Translingual

Letter

˦

  1. (IPA) 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, goes high and ends low.

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