Tone Letter
˧ redirects here. For the hangul letter, see ㅓ. For the reversed turnstile, see ⊣.
| Register (level) tone | |
|---|---|
| ˥ ˦ ˧ ˨ ˩ | |
| IPA number | 519–523 |
| Entity | ˥–˩ |
| Encoding | |
| Unicode | U+02E5–U+02E9 |
| Contour tone | |
|---|---|
| ˥˧ ˦˨ ˧˩ ˥˩ ˩˧ ˨˦ ˧˥ ˩˩˧ ˧˥˦ ˦˩˨ ˨˩˧ |
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| The contour-tone letters are composed as sequences: ˥˧ → ˥˧, ˨˩˧ → ˨˩˧ |
Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones.
Read more about Tone Letter: Chao Tone Letters (IPA), Numerical Values, Division of Tone Space, IPA Tone Letters in Unicode, Non-IPA Systems, See Also
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