Re: [clreq] Zhuyin annotations

#### 1
**Checked tone** in Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checked_tone):
> a checked tone is not a tone in the phonetic sense but rather a syllable that ends in a stop consonant or a glottal stop.

and

> have disappeared from most Mandarin dialects (spoken in northern and southwestern China), but remain preserved in southeastern branches of Chinese such as Yue, Min, and Hakka.

<table>
  <tr>
    <th>Tone</th>
    <th>Neutral</th>
    <th  colspan="4">Non-Neutral</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Symbol</th>
    <td>˙</td>
    <td>ˊ</td>
    <td>ˇ</td>
    <td>ˋ</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Unicode</th>
    <td>02D9</td>
    <td>02CA</td>
    <td>02C7</td>
    <td>02CB</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table>
    <th>Dialectal Tone</th>
    <th colspan="2">Non-Checked</th>
    <th colspan="4">Checked</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Symbol</th>
    <td>˪</td>
    <td>˫</td>
    <td>ㆴ</td>
    <td>ㆵ</td>
    <td>ㆶ</td>
    <td>ㆷ</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Unicode</th>
    <td>02EA</td>
    <td>02EB</td>
    <td>31B4</td>
    <td>31B5</td>
    <td>31B6</td>
    <td>31B7</td>
  </tr>
</table>

<table>
  <tr>
    <th colspan="5">Dialectal Checked tones</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Symbol</th>
    <td>ㆴ</td>
    <td>ㆵ</td>
    <td>ㆶ</td>
    <td>ㆷ</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th>Unicode</th>
    <td>31B4</td>
    <td>31B5</td>
    <td>31B6</td>
    <td>31B7</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <th rowspan="2">Stop consonant</th>
    <td>Bilabial</td>
    <td>Alveolar</td>
    <td>Velar</td>
    <td>Glottal</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>-p</td>
    <td>-t</td>
    <td>-k</td>
    <td>-h</td>
  </tr>
</table>

Checked tone have disappeared from Mandarin Chinese, so the symbols are not described in "The manual of the phonetic symbols of ***Mandarin Chinese***"

#### 2
In figure 13, 3rd example, it's <U+3127, U+31B5>

#### 3
- In figures 14, 3rd example, it's <U+310C, U+3127, U+31B6 with U+0307>
- In figures 15, 3rd example, it's <U+3109, U+3127, U+311C, U+31B7 with U+0307>

<U+0307> is COMBINING DOT ABOVE.
As I know, in Taiwanese Hokkien, a symbol of checked tone is used to indicate the 4th tone.
And a symbol with a "COMBINING DOT ABOVE" is used to indicate the 8th tone, which is also a checked tone, but just higher than 4th.
(see Taiwanese Phonetic Symbols in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_Phonetic_Symbols#Tones)

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