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Symbol

 * 1)  a rising floating tone.
 * 2)  a dipping (falling–rising) tone.
 * a high dipping tone.
 * 1)  the compound tone (tone 2 a.k.a.  grave accent) in Swedish and Norwegian.

Usage notes
The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by and tone diacritics.

Illustrated in the 1900 IPA chart and in the 1949 Principles. It is one of several ad hoc symbols that have been used, since the IPA has no single symbol to mark this tone.

Letter

 * 1) high tone.

Letter

 * 1) high falling tone.

Letter

 * 1) The  of Mandarin Chinese in Zhuyin script.