U+1EA6 "Ầ" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EA6 "Ầ" Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Grave is a precomposed glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese language, where it represents the vowel 'â' (a with circumflex) combined with the grave tone, indicating a low falling pitch in speech. This character is constructed by adding both a circumflex accent (^) above the capital letter 'A' and a grave accent (`) on top of the circumflex, forming a distinct letter in the Vietnamese alphabet. It is encoded in Unicode to allow for accurate digital representation and processing of Vietnamese text, ensuring that the tonal and diacritical distinctions essential to the language are preserved across different systems and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EA6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Â" U+00C2 Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ầ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ầ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ea6 |
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 | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| Case Folding | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ầ" U+1EA7 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Grave |
| 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 |