U+04D1 "ӑ" Cyrillic Small Letter A with Breve Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+04D1 "ӑ" Cyrillic Small Letter A with Breve is a variant of the standard Cyrillic letter "а" that includes a breve diacritic mark, which appears as a small curved line above the letter. This character is used in several languages, most notably in the Chuvash language, where it represents a specific vowel sound distinct from the plain "а". It can also be found in other minority languages of Russia and in some older or dialectal orthographies, often to indicate a short or reduced vowel. As part of the Cyrillic script block in Unicode, this character supports the accurate digital representation and typographic needs of these linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+04D1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Cyrillic Small Letter A with Breve |
| Block | Cyrillic |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "а" U+0430 Cyrillic Small Letter A "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ӑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ӑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xD3 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x04D1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000004D1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u04d1 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Lowercase | Yes |
| Simple Uppercase Code Point | "Ӑ" U+04D0 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Breve |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ӑ" U+04D0 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Breve |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ӑ" U+04D0 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Breve |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ӑ" U+04D0 Cyrillic Capital Letter A with Breve |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Titlecased | Yes |
| Changes When Uppercased | Yes |
| Script | Cyrillic |
| Script Extensions | Cyrillic |
| 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 |