What ᷋ means
It records a rising pitch contour in Lithuanian dialect transcription. Antanas Baranauskas used it in descriptions of Lithuanian dialects in the 19th century. A mora is a unit of syllable timing: the mark can indicate an unstressed syllable lasting three moras, or the first part of a secondarily stressed diphthong—a vowel that moves between two sounds.
Baranauskas's notation was carried into scholarly editions and online publications. The companion mark ᷌ belongs to the same transcription convention.
How do I type ᷋?
Place it after the base character it modifies. In HTML, write ᷋; in JavaScript, JSON, or Python strings, use \u1DCB.
Without a base, the sequence is defective: software may show a dotted circle, leave the mark floating, or show almost nothing. If it sits off-center, font fallback may be drawing the base and mark with different fonts.
A specialist phonetic mark in Lithuanian dialect transcription; its position records pitch.
Alone, it can appear over a dotted circle or look detached.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᷋ appear on a dotted circle?
It marks a missing base character: the dotted circle shows where this combining mark would attach in the text.
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How to type or find ᷋
- Also called
- breve-macron · breve macron
- Search it as
- macron breve · Lithuanian dialect transcription · rising intonation mark · U+1DCB · dotted circle combining mark
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᷋\1DCB᷋ after the base character in markup.\u1DCB after the base character inside the string.Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.