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Rising accent for second tone

@NFSL2001: What is perhaps more surprising than the shape of a for speakers of languages that use the acute accent: The Pinyin second tone accent is iconic for a rising tone in the left-to-right writing direction, and the first two fonts have accents that show this. By contrast, the shape in French fonts (and in all other Western fonts I know) is based on the definition that the acute accent ("accent aigu" in French) goes from right to left ("de droite à gauche"), and never from left to right. (See here for the definition in several French dictionaries.) Therefore the typical, and correct, pinyin acute accent seems rotated by 180° and looks strange. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 07:59, 12 June 2020 (UTC)

@LiliCharlie: Firstly, this picture comes from https://www.thetype.com/2017/08/11606/. And yes, the article actually had talked about this too at here (声调造型) too. (click the picture to see comparison between 2 pictures: one with Chinese fonts and one with Latin fonts.) This would require combination of the two pictures (Chinese pinyin/English pinyin)which I can put together and upload as another picture if needed. NFSL2001 (talk) 04:12, 13 June 2020 (UTC)

In case you're interested: I've started the discussion Talk:Acute accent#Shape and stroke direction on this topic. Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 08:00, 13 June 2020 (UTC)