What ⭚ means
⭚ belongs to Lithuanian phonetic transcription, a way to write down dialect speech. It draws on the Copenhagen Scheme, a system for writing speech sounds published in 1925. Jurgis Gerulis adapted it for Lithuanian dialect study in 1930; Aleksas Girdenis later developed it. Examples in a 1930 dialect study and a 2001 linguistics collection predate Unicode encoding.
Placement binds the contour to its speech
Lithuanian intonation marks normally follow the word or speech segment whose melody they describe.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Related characters
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Backslanted South Arrow With Hooked Tail
In the same Lithuanian notation, this mark signals a sharp pitch rise followed by a fall.
Slanted North Arrow With Horizontal Tail
This related mark signals a continued pitch rise in the same system.
Bent Arrow Pointing Downwards Then North East
Another mark from the same Lithuanian dialect-transcription set of arrows, bent down and then up.
Combination ideas
3Up, then curling back at the end
A hooked rise, then a hooked fall
A slight rise, then a longer hooked one
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
- Lithuanian dialect transcription · intonation mark · hooked arrow
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
macOS
HTML
⭚CSS
\2B5ACodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
⭚
HTML hex
⭚
CSS content
content: "\2B5A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%AD%9A
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.