Frank Tank wrote:
>302A;IDEOGRAPHIC LEVEL TONE MARK;...
>302B;IDEOGRAPHIC RISING TONE MARK;...
>302C;IDEOGRAPHIC DEPARTING TONE MARK;...
>302D;IDEOGRAPHIC ENTERING TONE MARK;...
I think they are old marks used by sinologues; they are to be combined with
ideographs, not with bopomofo or pinyin (note also "IDEOGRAPHIC" in the
character names). The only place I have seen them is on Bernard Karlgren's
works about Chinese etymology (early 20th century).
_ Marco
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