What ⭝ means
It marks a continued fall in speech pitch.
This Lithuanian falling tone mark records how pitch in a spoken phrase keeps dropping, a detail ordinary spelling cannot show. It leans backward by design; related marks use matching angles for rising pitch, sharp falls, and a rise followed by a fall.
The 2011 Unicode proposal cites Gerullis's 1930 studies of Lithuanian dialects as an earlier source for this notation and groups the marks for digital encoding. ⭝ entered Unicode in 2014.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Will every font show ⭝ correctly?
No. A font without this glyph may show a missing-character box or substitute another mark.
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How to type or find ⭝
- Search it as
- lithuanian intonation · lithuanian falling tone · intonation mark · falling pitch mark · phonetic mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⭝CSS
\2B5DHTML
To type ⭝ in HTML, use ⭝.
JavaScript / JSON
Use the escape sequence \u2B5D.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⭝
HTML hex
⭝
CSS content
content: "\2B5D";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AD%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.