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˧ U+02E7, ˧
MODIFIER LETTER MID TONE BAR
˦
Spacing Modifier Letters ˨
A staveless variant is obsolescent.

Translingual

Letter

˧

  1. (IPA) Mid 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 tone, and ˧˥˩ means one that begins mid, goes high and ends low.

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