Combining Right Arrowhead and Up Arrowhead Below

Put the mark after the character it modifies.

Enter the base character first, then U+0356 immediately after it. This below-positioned combining mark has no letter to attach to when entered alone.

This UPA mark belongs to specialist phonetic notation for Uralic languages. UPA keeps fine sound distinctions in searchable plain text. The arrowhead name describes the shape, not a pronunciation you can infer on its own.

Why does U+0356 float or vanish?

Font positioning decides whether the mark attaches properly.

Several marks can stack under one base letter, and UPA specimens show arrowhead arms of different lengths. If a font lacks suitable positioning, the mark may float, disappear, or differ from the printed source.

Where did UPA transcription come from?

It grew from phonetic work on Uralic languages.

UPA's documented record includes a sample by Setälä in 1901 and his article in 1902. Lehtisalo's UPA samples include this exact mark in 1956.

Before UPA, 19th-century Scandinavian Uralic studies used the Swedish landsmålsalfabetet and Norwegian Norvegia, earlier systems for recording speech sounds. By 2002, UPA was described as used beyond its early European centers, including North America and Japan, as well as in other linguistic fields and archaeology.