What ᷌ means
It marks falling pitch on an unstressed three-mora syllable. A mora is one timing unit in the notation. In Lithuanian dialectology, ᷌ records how the syllable's pitch drops; it is not a generic recipe for combining a long and a short vowel.
In the 19th century, Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902), a researcher of Lithuanian dialects, used these marks in dialect texts and poetry in his own dialect. His transcribed texts and poems became reference material for later dialect study; preserving ᷌ lets editions retain his exact notation.
How does ᷌ differ from ᷋?
They mark opposite pitch movement. In Lithuanian dialect transcription, ᷌ marks falling pitch on an unstressed three-mora syllable, while ᷋ marks rising pitch.
In some transcriptions, ᷋ also marks the first part of a stressed secondary diphthong—a two-vowel sound within one syllable. Both signs belong to specialist notation for Lithuanian dialects, not general-purpose accenting.
How do I type ᷌ without breaking it?
Place it after the letter it marks. Insert ᷌ after a base letter in a Unicode-aware editor; by itself, a combining mark has no letter to modify.
A dotted circle in a character chart stands in for a base letter and is not part of ᷌. Font and text-layout support determine its placement, so a floating mark, missing glyph, or boxed fallback is a display issue.
A specialist mark for Lithuanian dialect transcription; outside that context, its pitch reading may be unfamiliar.
Do not read it as “long plus short”; it marks falling pitch.
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What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsFalling pitch on an unstressed syllable of three moras.
Don't confuse it with
2A standalone macron, unlike the joined pitch-contour mark ᷌.
A standalone breve, unlike the joined pitch-contour mark ᷌.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᷌ look wrong?
It is a display issue. ᷌ is a combining mark, so the font and text layout control its placement; a floating mark or dotted-circle display does not change its meaning. The dotted circle is only a stand-in for a base letter.
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᷌\1DCC᷌ after the base letter.Codes and encoding1 code points
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