What ᪻ means
It signals that the enclosed mark affects pronunciation less.
ExtIPA, an extension of the International Phonetic Alphabet, and some Cyrillic modifier letters also use it. Teuthonista transcribes dialects. Carl Richard Lepsius's 1855 phonetic alphabet was an early model for this tradition; Graziadio Isaia Ascoli devised a related system for Romance dialects—languages descended from Latin—in 1873. Philipp Lenz developed a Germanic system by 1900; separate Bavarian-Austrian rules date to 1912/13. Hermann Teuchert slightly revised Lenz's system for the journal Teuthonista in 1924–25. It was widely used for Germanic dialects in the 20th century; related systems covered Romance dialects in Switzerland and Italy.
Its intended display puts parentheses around the preceding above diacritic, although ᪻ follows that mark in text.
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ᪻ show as a box on some devices?
Not every system ships a font for the Combining Diacritical Marks Extended block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.
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᪼Combining Double Parentheses Above
(Left Parenthesis
)Right Parenthesis
᫁Combining Left Parenthesis Above Left
᫂Combining Right Parenthesis Above Right
᫇Combining Inverted Double Arch Above
᪹Combining Light Centralization Stroke Below
᪺Combining Strong Centralization Stroke Below
^Circumflex Accent
`Grave Accent
¨Diaeresis
¯Macron
´Acute AccentHow to type or find ᪻
- Search it as
- Teuthonista · ExtIPA · phonetic parentheses · weakened diacritic
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᪻\1ABBCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.