ʻ

ʻ

1. Used in ALA-LC romanization of the Arabic letter ع‎ (ʕ).
2. Spiritus asper used in Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese.

   Tʻai-pei or Taipei, capital of Taiwan (ROC)

   • 1898, Beach, Harlan P., Dawn on the Hills of Tʻang‎, New York, →OCLC, page 154:

     Chiang-su was the main centre of the great Tʻai Pʻing rebellion, Nanking being the rebel capital from 1853 to 1864.

   • 1904, C. D. Tenney, Geography of Asia‎, New York: MacMillan and Co, →OCLC, page 6:

     Chʻing-wang-tao (秦皇島) is a deep water port on the Gulf of Pechili, and is important as a port for the shipping of coal, and also as the winter port for the exports and imports of Tientsin.

   • 1913, Kinosuke Inouye, “The Coal Resources of Manchuria”, in The Coal Resources of the World‎, volume 1, Morang & Co. Limited, →OCLC, page 256:

     Coal is found in several places along the Hun-chiang on the north-east of Tʻung-hua.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ʻ.

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʔ/

ʻ

1. The thirteenth letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, called ʻokina and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a (Ā ā), E e (Ē ē), I i (Ī ī), O o (Ō ō), U u (Ū ū), H h, K k, L l, M m, N n, P p, W w, ʻ

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /ʔ/

ʻ

1. The seventeenth letter of the Tongan alphabet, called fakauʻa and written in the Latin script.

• (Latin-script letters) A a, E e, F f, H h, I i, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ng ng, O o, P p, S s, T t, U u, V v, ʻ

ʻ

1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, found on Oʻ/oʻ.
2. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, found on Gʻ/gʻ.