Secondary accent
ˌ
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) secondary accent symbol ( ˌ ) indicates that the following syllable has secondary accent (secondary accent).
Its IPA number is 502, the Unicode Standard Number ( UCS ) is U + 02CC.
confusion
The character must not be confused with the comma (,). It must not be confused with U + 0329 either.
Examples of its use are the words:
- German water pipe [ˈvasɐˌpfaɪfə]
- engl. influenza (flu) [ˌɪinfluˈɛnzə]
- French ignorance (ignorance) [ˌiɲɔˈʀɑ̃s]