U+01CD "Ǎ" Latin Capital Letter A with Caron Unicode Character
U+01CD "Ǎ" Latin Capital Letter A with Caron is a precomposed letter used primarily in certain romanization systems and orthographies, such as the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese, where it represents a third tone "a" sound, and occasionally in languages like Lampung or in the transcription of Slavic languages. This glyph combines a base Latin capital letter A with a caron diacritic, a small inverted breve placed above the character, to indicate a specific phonetic value distinct from a plain A. While not common in standard English or most European languages, it is essential for accurately representing linguistic sounds in academic and computational contexts, ensuring that tonal distinctions or vowel modifications are clearly encoded in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01CD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Capital Letter A Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| 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+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ǎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ǎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01CD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001CD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01cd |
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 | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| Simple Case Folding | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| Case Folding | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ǎ" U+01CE Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| 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 |