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Etymology
The caesura mark is a variant of the medieval.

Symbol

 * 1)  Used to mark caesuras.
 * Hwæt! wē Gār-Dena ‖ in gēar-dagum
 * 1)  Marks a major prosodic break, which may be any level of prosodic unit if a single bar marks a metrical foot, or may mark the end of a final prosodic unit if a single bar marks the end of a continuing unit.
 * 2)  Unnaturalised, foreign.

Usage notes
The IPA symbol is intended to be typeset in bold typeface, and is presented that way in the official IPA symbol charts.