˗

Alternative forms
Glyph for retraction may have serifs to distinguish it from a hyphen

Symbol

 * 1)  a mid, level tone.
 * 1)  a mid, level tone.

Usage notes
The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This symbol is effectively obsolete, having been replaced by and tone diacritics.

More recently, the diacritic tends to be placed above the letter with a descender, but in Unicode this is not distinguished from a macron. See ⟨◌̄⟩.