U+01CE "ǎ" Latin Small Letter A with Caron Unicode Character
U+01CE "ǎ" Latin Small Letter A with Caron is a modified lowercase letter 'a' that incorporates a caron, or háček, a diacritical mark resembling an inverted breve placed above the character, which is used in several languages to indicate a specific phonetic value, typically a rising or falling-rising tone. This character is commonly employed in the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese to represent the third tone, known as the falling-rising tone, as in the word "nǎ" meaning "which." It also appears in other linguistic systems, such as the romanization of certain Slavic languages like Czech and Slovak, though less frequently than its uppercase counterpart. The glyph is visually distinct from the plain Latin 'a', serving as a crucial tool for accurate transcription and pronunciation in language learning, phonetics, and digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+01CE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Caron |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Latin Small Letter A Hacek |
| Block | Latin Extended-B |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "a" U+0061 Latin Small Letter A "̌" U+030C Combining Caron |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ǎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ǎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xC7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x01CE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000001CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u01ce |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| East Asian Width | Ambiguous |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ǎ" U+01CD Latin Capital Letter A with Caron |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ǎ" U+01CD Latin Capital Letter A with Caron |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ǎ" U+01CD Latin Capital Letter A with Caron |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ǎ" U+01CD Latin Capital Letter A with Caron |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| 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 | Lower |