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A vertical stroke above the syllable.
Also known as: Vedic circumflex
The Vedic accent mark written as an upright stroke over a syllable carrying the falling pitch that follows a raised one.
Marks the syllable on which the pitch falls from the raised tone to the low one.
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Phonetically a glide rather than a level tone, which is why the grammarians describe it as compounded of the other two rather than as a third independent pitch.
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Encoded at U+0951, under the Unicode name DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA — a name that records the mark's shape in one tradition rather than the accent it writes in the commonest one, and a well-known trap for anyone selecting characters by name.
Contexts: Language and transcription, History
A short vertical stroke standing on the headstroke above the syllable.