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Classical Chinese tone markers font test page

四聲 (from 'CJK Symbols and Punctuation' block)

Code point Reference image Your browser Name
U+302A Level 平〪 IDEOGRAPHIC LEVEL TONE MARK
U+302B Rising 上〫 IDEOGRAPHIC RISING TONE MARK
U+302C Departing 去〬 IDEOGRAPHIC DEPARTING TONE MARK
U+302D Entering 入〭 IDEOGRAPHIC ENTERING TONE MARK

陰陽 (from 'Modifier Tone Letters' block)

Code point Reference image Your browser Name
U+A700 Dark level ꜀紛 MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YIN PING
U+A701 Light level ꜁墳 MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YANG PING
U+A702 Dark rising ꜂粉 MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YIN SHANG
U+A703 Light rising ꜃憤 MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YANG SHANG
U+A704 Dark departing 糞꜄ MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YIN QU
U+A705 Light departing 份꜅ MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YANG QU
U+A706 Dark entering 弗꜆ MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YIN RU
U+A707 Light entering 佛꜇ MODIFIER LETTER CHINESE TONE YANG RU
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yawnoc commented Jan 2, 2022

Microsoft YaHei is dumb (circular tone markers aren't positioned correctly):

Screenshot showing that Microsoft YaHei is dumb.

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yawnoc commented Jan 2, 2022

MacOS is apparently even worse:

Screenshot showing broken glyphs on iPad.

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