What 𐞁 means
It marks long aspiration on a preceding raised modifier.
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system for writing speech sounds. In narrow IPA transcription, [ʰ𐞁] marks long aspiration: the breathy delay before voicing starts lasts longer. Phoneticians call that interval voice-onset time (VOT); [ʰ𐞂] marks it as half-long.
Why does the raised position matter?
Its position shows what the length applies to.
In [ʰ𐞁], duration belongs to the raised aspiration modifier ʰ, not the consonant below it. The ordinary IPA length mark ː follows a base sound, while ˑ marks half-long duration. So ʰ𐞁 and ʰː have different scope.
When was this notation documented?
The IPA is older; this specific mark is documented much later.
The International Phonetic Association was founded in 1886 to support phonetic teaching, and its first alphabet was published in 1888. A 2020 Unicode proposal cites earlier uses in phonetic studies by Boersma and Hamann (2009) and Heselwood (2013). It presents Unicode encoding as a way to represent an existing notation, not as the origin of its meaning.
Don't confuse it with
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2Questions people ask
1Can formatted superscript replace 𐞁?
No. Raising ː with formatting can imitate the height, but it remains the base-level length mark; 𐞁 assigns duration to a raised modifier.
How to type 𐞁
𐞁\10781Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.