ˊ

See also: ´ [U+00B4 ACUTE ACCENT], ʹ [U+02B9 MODIFIER LETTER PRIME], and ◌́ [U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT]

ˊ U+02CA, ˊ MODIFIER LETTER ACUTE ACCENT ← ˉ [U+02C9] Spacing Modifier Letters ˋ → [U+02CB]

Translingual

Symbol

ˊ

1. (IPA) a high floating tone.
2. (IPA, obsolete) a rising tone.

   (IPA, when contrasted with low ⟨ˏ⟩) a high rising tone.

Usage notes

(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 This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by Chao tone letters and tone diacritics.

See also

• ⟨ˏ⟩ (low rising tone)

Hokkien

Diacritical mark

ˊ

1. (Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols) fifth tone (陽平 / 阳平 (yángpíng)).

Mandarin

Letter

ˊ

1. The second tone (第二聲 / 第二声) of Mandarin Chinese in Zhuyin script, the 陽平聲 / 阳平声 (yángpíng shēng, “light level tone”).

See also

• ˇ (“third tone”), ˋ (“fourth tone”), ˙ (“neutral tone”)

Nawdm

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /◌́/

Diacritical mark

ˊ

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 ɦá, it appears after the consonant letter in the pronouns bˊ, dˊ, lˊ, mˊ, nˊ, tˊ, vˊ.

   Coordinate term: ˋ

Pronoun

ˊ

1. thou (2sg. subject)

Usage notes

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

Skolt Sami

Letter

ˊ

1. alternative form of ʹ

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bukva; A a,  â, B b, C c, Č č, Ʒ ʒ, Ǯ ǯ, D d, Đ đ, E e, F f, G g, Ǧ ǧ, Ǥ ǥ, H h, I i, J j, K k, Ǩ ǩ, L l, M m, N n, Ŋ ŋ, O o, Õ õ, P p, R r, S s, Š š, T t, U u, V v, Z z, Ž ž, Å å, Ä ä, ʹ
• Skolt Sami language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia