Modifier Letter Low Grave Accent

The Modifier Letter Low Grave Accent at U+02CE is a small spacing accent mark used as a letterlike modifier rather than as a diacritic attached to another character. It is part of the Spacing Modifier Letters block, which contains phonetic and transcription signs that occupy their own horizontal space. Its main use is in phonetic and linguistic transcription systems where a low-positioned grave-shaped mark needs to be typed as a separate symbol. It can indicate prosodic or tonal information in specialized notations, especially when the mark is meant to follow a sound symbol instead of combining above or below it. The character is also encountered in legacy or converted scholarly data, dictionaries, and language documentation, where older transcription conventions used spacing accent signs for stress, pitch, or tone. It should not be treated as an ordinary punctuation comma or apostrophe: those look similar in some fonts but have different meanings and will not match in precise text search.