What 𖾒 means
It moves the vowel below its consonant to mark tone. Pollard Miao puts small vowel signs around a large consonant. Their position identifies a tone category—the syllable’s pitch pattern. Alone, the mark has no vowel to move.
Reforms changed tone marking
Pollard and Miao collaborators shaped the script around 1904–05 to write A-Hmao, a Miao language of northeast Yunnan; two books appeared in 1905. Its design drew on Latin forms, English shorthand (abbreviated writing), Miao picture signs and Cree syllabics, a Canadian writing system for Cree. Later it reached some Yi and Lisu languages. Reforms from the 1950s added separate tone signs while keeping vowels on the baseline.
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Questions people ask
1Does “below” mean low tone?
No. “Below” names the vowel’s position; that position marks a tone category, not a low pitch by itself.
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How to type or find 𖾒
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- pollard miao · tone position · miao tone mark · t below · pollard tone · lower tone mark · t shaped mark
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Codes and encoding1 code points
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