What ˼ means
UPA assigns it the closing role for a low-tone span.
UPA records Uralic languages. In 1901, Setälä proposed shared scientific notation because researchers used differing alphabets.
The 2002 Unicode proposal places UPA’s beginnings in European Uralic studies, then notes worldwide recognition and use in linguistics and archaeology. It found no documented examples of ˼ in use, but kept it to complete the series.
Specialist transcription, not conversational tone.
Does “low tone” mean mood? No; it names a phonetic value here.
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ˼ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ˼
- Search it as
- UPA · Uralic Phonetic Alphabet · low tone mark · tone notation
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
˼\02FCCodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.