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Symbol

 * 1)  Tenuis; a symbol for overtly indicating lack of aspiration.

Usage notes
In speech pathology, this diacritic is used to indicate that a consonant is not aspirated when the target pronunciation is, for example in for the English word "kit," which is normally aspirated. (The aspiration of English words is not usually transcribed.)

It has also been used in linguistic field notes and dictionaries to show that a consonant has been confirmed to be unaspirated. In such cases, words transcribed as ⟨ak˭a⟩ and ⟨akʰa⟩ are known to differ, but in one transcribed ⟨aka⟩ the aspiration is unknown.