ˉ
- (IPA) a mid floating tone.
- (IPA, obsolete) a level tone.
- (when contrasted with low ⟨ˍ⟩ or mid ⟨˗⟩) a high level tone.
- (poetry) Used to mark a long/stressed syllable in a metrical foot or verse: e.g. ⟨˘ˉ⟩ iamb, ⟨ˉ˘⟩ trochee, ⟨ˉˉ⟩ spondee. Also placed over vowel letters: see ⟨◌̄⟩.
(obsolete IPA): The mark is placed before the word or syllable that bears the tone. This use of the symbol has effectively been replaced by Chao tone letters and tone diacritics.
- ⟨ˍ⟩ (low level tone)
- ⟨˗⟩ (mid level tone)
- ⟨˘⟩ (short syllable)
ˉ
- The first tone of Mandarin Chinese in Zhuyin script.
First tone is not normally written, but may be indicated for clarification.
- ˊ (“second tone”), ˇ (“third tone”), ˋ (“fourth tone”), ˙ (“neutral tone”)