What ˾ means
It marks an unreleased consonant. The airflow stops, but the consonant's release is not pronounced. In UPA, ˾ follows the consonant, as in ⟨t˾⟩.
It appears in an 1896 dictionary and grammar of Pite Sámi, before UPA. Swedish and Norwegian transcription schemes were used for Uralic languages in the 19th century; Setälä formalized UPA in 1901. UPA is not standardized, so check the author's key.
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 · unreleased consonant · unreleased stop · no audible release · phonetic transcription
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
˾CSS
\02FEHow do I type ˾?
A 2005 Unicode report describes macro input and a UPA keyboard in development. If your layout lacks the mark, use your editor's character picker.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
˾
HTML hex
˾
CSS content
content: "\02FE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%CB%BE
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
2
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.