Modifier Tone Letters
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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.
Template:Angbr IPA 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 Template:Angbr IPA are used for the pitch of neutral tones, while the reversed tone letters Template:Angbr IPA and neutral Template:Angbr IPA are used for tone sandhi. Template:Angbr IPA are modifier letters used in Ozumacín Chinantec. Template:Angbr IPA are the IPA modifier letters for upstep and downstep, while Template:Angbr IPA are substitutes people used before broad font support of the IPA, and still preferred by some.
Block
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| 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 |
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History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Modifier Tone Letters block:
| Version | Final code points[lower-alpha 1] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | U+A700..A716 | 23 | L2/03-317 | N2626 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". |
| L2/03-339 | N2646 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |||
| L2/03-372 | N2673 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |||
| L2/04-107 | N2713 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |||
| L2/04-156R2 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | ||||
| 5.0 | U+A717..A71A | 4 | L2/04-246R | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |
| L2/04-349 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | ||||
| L2/04-349R | N2883 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |||
| 5.1 | U+A71B..A71F | 5 | N2945 | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | |
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | ||||
| N3103 (pdf, doc) | Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". | ||||
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References
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