U+0102 "Ă" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve Unicode Character
U+0102 "Ă" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve is a grapheme used primarily in the Romanian alphabet, where it represents the mid central vowel sound /ə/, similar to the 'a' in the English word "sofa". It consists of a standard Latin capital letter A with a breve diacritic, a small curved mark placed above the character to indicate a short or reduced vowel pronunciation. This character is distinct from the Latin Capital Letter A with Macron or other diacritics, and it appears in Romanian words such as "cărțile" (books) and "frumos" (beautiful), where it plays a crucial role in distinguishing meaning and ensuring correct phonetic spelling. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard allows for consistent digital representation and text processing across different platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0102 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Breve |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Breve |
| Block | Latin Extended-A |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "A" U+0041 Latin Capital Letter A "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ă |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ă |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC4 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0102 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000102 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0102 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Uppercase | Yes |
| Simple Lowercase Code Point | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| Simple Case Folding | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| Case Folding | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve |
| Script | Latin |
| Script Extensions | Latin |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | Upper |