ʻ

Symbol

 * 1) Spiritus asper used in Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese.
 * 2)  light aspiration
 * 3)  transliteration of the Semitic letter ayin.
 * 4)  Transliterates Perso-Arabic letter ع in Indic languages.
 * 1)  light aspiration
 * 2)  transliteration of the Semitic letter ayin.
 * 3)  Transliterates Perso-Arabic letter ع in Indic languages.
 * 1)  transliteration of the Semitic letter ayin.
 * 2)  Transliterates Perso-Arabic letter ع in Indic languages.
 * 1)  Transliterates Perso-Arabic letter ع in Indic languages.

Usage notes
The spiritus asper was added to the IPA for light aspiration in 1929, with a full letter $⟨h⟩$ used for heavy aspiration. Sometime in the 1970s the superscript $⟨ʰ⟩$ was approved as an alternative to the spiritus asper, and in 1979 the other two options were withdrawn.

Usage notes
According to the Unicode Standard, there is no left half ring in Armenian. Unicode character U+0559 is not used. It appears that this character is a duplicate character, which was encoded to represent U+02BB MODIFIER LETTER TURNED COMMA, used in Armenian transliteration. U+02BB is preferred for this purpose.

Letter

 * 1)  the alveolar clicks, modern ǃ|$⟨ǃ⟩$. (Besides plain $⟨ʻ⟩$, it is also used for the alveolar  click consonants $⟨ʻk ʻg ʻn ʻh ʻkh⟩$.)
 * See also ꞏ, ʼ, ꞉.