Spacing Modifier Letters is a
Unicode block
A Unicode block is one of several contiguous ranges of numeric character codes ( code points) of the Unicode character set that are defined by the Unicode Consortium for administrative and documentation purposes. Typically, proposals such as the ...
containing characters for the
IPA
IPA commonly refers to:
* India pale ale, a style of beer
* International Phonetic Alphabet, a system of phonetic notation
* Isopropyl alcohol, a chemical compound
IPA may also refer to:
Organizations International
* Insolvency Practitioners A ...
,
UPA, and other phonetic transcriptions. Included are the IPA tone marks, and modifiers for
aspiration and
palatalization. The word ''spacing'' indicates that these characters occupy their own horizontal space within a line of text. Its block name in Unicode 1.0 was simply Modifier Letters.
Character table
Compact table
History
The following Unicode-related documents record the purpose and process of defining specific characters in the Spacing Modifier Letters block:
See also
*
Phonetic symbols in Unicode
References
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Unicode blocks