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𐞂

modifier letter superscript half triangular colon

Superscript Half-Length Mark

𐞂 is a raised half-length mark used in detailed IPA transcription. It can time aspiration—the puff of air after a consonant—without making the consonant itself longer.

Text symbol
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ipa · half-length · half-long · aspiration · phonetic mark
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 𐞂 means

It measures the raised detail, not the main sound. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing speech sounds. Its ordinary-height ˑ marks half length. After raised ʰ (aspiration, a consonant’s puff of air), 𐞂 makes that puff half-long.

The half-length mark appears in IPA notes by 1904.

The IPA’s English booklet from 1904 places ordinary-height ˑ beside the full-length mark in its timing notes. The raised form handles a finer distinction: duration can belong to a modifier, such as aspiration, rather than to the main consonant.

Specialist phonetic notation.

Unicode’s compatibility normalization, NFKC, changes it to ordinary-height `ˑ`.

Don't confuse it with

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𐞁
Modifier Letter Superscript Triangular Colon
shares “colon”, “letter”, “modifier”, “superscript”, “triangular”
𐞀
Modifier Letter Small Capital Aa
shares “letter”, “modifier”
𐞃
Modifier Letter Small Ae
shares “letter”, “modifier”
𐞄
Modifier Letter Small Capital B
shares “letter”, “modifier”

Combination ideas

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Half-long aspiration after t.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𐞂 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.

How to type 𐞂

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 10782, then Alt+X to get 𐞂.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “modifier letter superscript half triangular colon”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 10782, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𐞂
CSS
\10782
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𐞂
HTML hex
𐞂
CSS content
content: "\10782";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%90%9E%82
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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