What ⭎ means
It shows the speaker's voice rising slightly in pitch. In Lithuanian dialectology, the study of regional speech, this intonation mark appears in phonetic transcription—a written record of speech sounds and melody.
The Unicode proposal cites Gerullis's dialect studies from 1930 and Girdenis's work from 2001 as examples of this notation. ⭎ belongs to a set of marks for rises, falls, and more complex pitch contours.
Where does ⭎ go in transcription?
Write it after the word it describes. In this notation, ⭎ can also indicate faster delivery.
A specialist intonation mark for Lithuanian dialectology, used to record speech melody.
Its arrow shape does not make it a general direction symbol; its documented role is to mark pitch.
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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 ⭎
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- Lithuanian intonation mark · rising tone symbol · phonetic transcription arrow · dialectology intonation mark
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
⭎\2B4ECodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.