Modifier Letter Extra-Low Dotted Tone Bar

꜌ marks the extra-low level in the dotted five-level tone series. In Chinese-oriented transcription, dotted tone letters mark short, weakly stressed syllables often called neutral; the same dotted forms are also described for short (“stopped”) tones. The exact value depends on the transcription system.

Examples from 1968 and 1984 appear in a 2003 encoding proposal, showing that the notation was already in use. The proposal says linguists, teachers, publishers, and data systems needed the characters to inspect, teach, print, and exchange language data. Nineteenth-century Cantonese teaching works also used corner marks around syllables written in Latin letters to show tone; that is related history, not evidence that ꜌ came from those marks. Dotted tone letters were proposed as a complement to tone letters in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). A Unicode character picker that accepts hexadecimal input uses A70C for direct entry.

How can I enter ꜌ correctly?

Enter A70C in a character picker that accepts Unicode hex input. ꜌ is a single spacing character, not a letter plus a combining dot or bar; those would produce different text.

꜌ sits at the bottom of the five-level dotted series: ꜋ marks low, ꜊ mid, ꜉ high, and ꜈ extra-high. Left-stem dotted tone letters belong to related sequence notation for sandhi, a tone change across syllables. Some fonts join tone-letter runs visually; read the full sequence with its syllable.