Ar 🔊 (; a noun identifier, similar to in Mandarin)

Notes

"ar" is used often:

Tone sandhi exception

When a basic tone syllable is followed by "ar", it does not change tone. In some cases, a hyphen may be inserted to preserve the original basic tone in writing to distinguish from another word.

without "ar" after "ar"
o o'ar
chiu chiuar (no apostrophe needed)
hien hien-ar (not to be confused with hien'ar (hieen-ar))
hviati hviati'ar
siøfti siøfti'ar
iaxchi iaxchi'ar