"long-vowel mark" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: long-vowel marks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=long-vowel mark}} long-vowel mark (plural long-vowel marks)
  1. The symbol ː (the triangular colon), which marks long vowels in IPA. Categories (topical): Diacritical marks
    Sense id: en-long-vowel_mark-en-noun-fIv1OhU1 Disambiguation of Diacritical marks: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 72 28 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 60 40
  2. The symbol ー, which marks long vowels in Japanese hiragana and katakana. Categories (topical): Diacritical marks
    Sense id: en-long-vowel_mark-en-noun-2I~bxaus Disambiguation of Diacritical marks: 49 51 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: macron (alt: ◌̄)

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for long-vowel mark meaning in English (2.3kB)

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