U+1EAB "ẫ" Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde Unicode Character

U+1EAB "ẫ" Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde is a precomposed Latin character used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the sound of the letter "a" pronounced with both a circumflex, which often indicates a specific vowel quality, and a tilde diacritic above it, which signifies a glottalized or creaky tone. This character is employed in the writing of Vietnamese words and is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, which allows for the correct digital representation of tonal markers in that language.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EAB
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
Block	Latin Extended Additional
General Category	Lowercase Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right
Decomposition Type	Canonical
Decomposition Mapping	"â" U+00E2 Latin Small Letter A with Circumflex "̃" U+0303 Combining Tilde

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẫ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẫ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EAB
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EAB
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1eab

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	"Ẫ" U+1EAA Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẫ" U+1EAA Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẫ" U+1EAA Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẫ" U+1EAA Latin Capital Letter A with Circumflex and Tilde
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