Modifier Tone Letters
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| 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 | |
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| 4.1 Template:Unicode version/version-to-date | 23 (+23) |
| 5.0 Template:Unicode version/version-to-date | 27 (+4) |
| 5.1 Template:Unicode version/version-to-date | 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.
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
| Modifier Tone LettersPage Template:Citation/styles.css has no content.[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 |
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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[a] | Count | L2 ID | WG2 ID | Document |
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| 4.1 | U+A700..A716 | 23 | L2/03-317 | N2626 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Proposal on IPA Extensions & Combining Diacritical Marks for ISO/IEC 10646 in BMP, 2003-09-27 |
| L2/03-339 | N2646 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Constable, Peter (2003-10-08), Comments on N2626, Proposal on IPA Extensions and Combining Diacritic Marks for ISO/IEC 10646 in BMP | |||
| L2/03-372 | N2673 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Anderson, Deborah (2003-10-22), Comments on N2626, "Proposal on IPA Extensions & Combining Diacritic Marks for ISO 10646 in BMP" | |||
| L2/04-107 | N2713 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Revised Proposal for encoding A Supplemented Set of IPA Combining Marks, Modifier Letters & Five-Degree Contour Tone Marks, 2004-03-20 | |||
| L2/04-156R2 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Moore, Lisa (2004-08-13), "Supplemental set of IPA combing marks, modifier letters, and five-degree contour tone marks (A.7)", UTC #99 Minutes | ||||
| 5.0 | U+A717..A71A | 4 | L2/04-246R | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Priest, Lorna (2004-07-26), Revised Proposal for Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters | |
| L2/04-349 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Priest, Lorna (2004-08-27), Proposal to Encode Chinantec Tone Marks and Orthographic 'at' Characters | ||||
| L2/04-349R | N2883 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Priest, Lorna (2004-12-09), Proposal to Encode Chinantec Tone Marks | |||
| 5.1 | U+A71B..A71F | 5 | N2945 | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Priest, Lorna; Constable, Peter (2005-08-09), Proposal to Encode Additional Latin Phonetic and Orthographic Characters | |
| N2953 (pdf, doc) | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-02-16), "7.2.8", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 47, Sophia Antipolis, France; 2005-09-12/15 | ||||
| N3103 (pdf, doc) | Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Umamaheswaran, V. S. (2006-08-25), "M48.1", Unconfirmed minutes of WG 2 meeting 48, Mountain View, CA, USA; 2006-04-24/27 | ||||
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See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Unicode character database". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Enumerated Versions of The Unicode Standard". The Unicode Standard. Retrieved 2023-07-26.
