Modifier Tone Letters
| Modifier Tone Letters | |
|---|---|
| Range | U+A700..U+A71F (32 code points) |
| Plane | BMP |
| Scripts | Common |
| Symbol sets | Tone marks |
| Assigned | 32 code points |
| Unused | 0 reserved code points |
| Unicode version history | |
| 4.1 (2005) | 23 (+23) |
| 5.0 (2006) | 27 (+4) |
| 5.1 (2008) | 32 (+5) |
| Unicode documentation | |
| Code chart ∣ Web page | |
| Note: [1][2] | |
Modifier Tone Letters is a Unicode block containing tone markings for Chinese, Chinantec, Africanist, and other phonetic transcriptions. It does not contain the standard IPA tone marks, which are found in Spacing Modifier Letters.
| Modifier Tone Letters[1] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+A70x | ꜀ | ꜁ | ꜂ | ꜃ | ꜄ | ꜅ | ꜆ | ꜇ | ꜈ | ꜉ | ꜊ | ꜋ | ꜌ | ꜍ | ꜎ | ꜏ |
| U+A71x | ꜐ | ꜑ | ꜒ | ꜓ | ꜔ | ꜕ | ꜖ | ꜗ | ꜘ | ꜙ | ꜚ | ꜛ | ꜜ | ꜝ | ꜞ | ꜟ |
Notes
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⟨꜀◌ ꜁◌ ꜂◌ ꜃◌ ◌꜄ ◌꜅ ◌꜆ ◌꜇⟩ are used to mark yin and (underlined) yang splits of the ping, shang, qu and ru tones, respectively, in the etymological four-tone analysis of Chinese. The dotted tone letters ⟨꜈ ꜉ ꜊ ꜋ ꜌⟩ are used for the pitch of neutral tones, while the reversed tone letters ⟨꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖⟩ and neutral ⟨꜍ ꜎ ꜏ ꜐ ꜑⟩ are used for tone sandhi. ⟨◌ꜗ ◌ꜘ ◌ꜙ ◌ꜚ⟩ are used in Chinantecan languages. ⟨ꜛ ꜜ⟩ are the IPA diacritics for upstep and downstep, while ⟨ꜝ ꜞ ꜟ⟩ are substitutes people used before broad font support of the IPA, and still preferred by some.
See also
References
- ^ "Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
- ^ "Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2016-07-09.
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