What ˰ means
It marks a tighter articulation in Uralic phonetic transcription. Transcription records how speech sounds are pronounced. The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet (UPA) was developed to describe languages such as Finnish and Hungarian in detail; linguist E. N. Setälä proposed it in 1901–02.
In relative-articulation notation, which describes a sound compared with a reference pronunciation, ˰ can mark a raised vowel. In an example such as e˰, the tongue is higher than for the unmodified vowel, making it more closed. This is about tongue position, not singing a higher note.
The arrowhead points upward but sits low in the line of text. It is a separate, spacing character: it goes beside a letter rather than automatically attaching underneath it. A modifier changes how another character is read; it is not a separate sound to pronounce.
Specialist pronunciation notation; read it using the transcription system of the text.
An upward-pointing shape does not make this a general “up” arrow.
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How to type or find ˰
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- low up arrowhead · phonetic modifier · UPA · Uralic Phonetic Alphabet · phonetic tightening · raised vowel
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
˰\02F0Codes and encoding1 code points
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