ˋ

ˋ

1. (IPA) a low floating tone
2. (IPA, obsolete) a falling tone

   (IPA, when contrasted with mid ⟨˴⟩ or low ⟨ˎ⟩) a high falling tone

(obsolete IPA): The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by Chao tone letters and tone diacritics.

• ⟨˴⟩ (mid falling tone)
• ⟨ˎ⟩ (low falling tone)

ˋ

1. (Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols) second tone (上聲 / 上声).

ˋ

1. The fourth tone (第四聲 / 第四声) of Mandarin Chinese in Zhuyin script, the 去聲 / 去声 (qùshēng, “departing tone”).

• ˊ (“second tone”), ˇ (“third tone”), ˙ (“neutral tone”)

• IPA^(key): /◌̀/

ˋ

1. A tone diacritic of the Nawdm alphabet. Tone is usually only written for pronouns. Although the acute is placed over vowel letters, as in the pronoun ɦà, it appears after the consonant letter in the pronouns bˋ, dˋ, lˋ, mˋ, nˋ, tˋ, vˋ.

   Coordinate term: ˊ

ˋ

1. thou (2sg. subject)

In subject position, the pronoun vˋ may be reduced to its tone.