A stop with no audible release, commonly called an unreleased stop, is a stop consonant with no release burst: no audible indication of the end of its occlusion (hold). In the International Phonetic Alphabet, lack of an audible release is denoted with an upper-right corner diacritic ⟨ ̚ ⟩ (U+031A ̚ combining left angle above) above the consonant letter:, .
Audibly released stops, on the other hand, are not normally indicated. If a final stop is aspirated, the aspiration symbol is sufficient to indicate the release. Otherwise, the 'unaspirated' diacritic from the Extended IPA may be employed for this: apt .
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