U+1EAE "Ắ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Acute Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EAE "Ắ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Acute is a precomposed glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent the high-rising tone of the vowel "ă," which is itself a short "a" sound. This letter is formed by adding a breve diacritic above the capital A to indicate the shortened vowel, and an acute accent above the breve to denote the specific tonal contour. It appears in romanized Vietnamese text for words like "Ắc" (meaning "bitter") and is essential for accurate pronunciation and orthography in the language. The character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, ensuring its proper display and encoding across digital platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EAE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Uppercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "Ă" U+0102 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve "́" U+0301 Combining Acute Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ắ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ắ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eae |
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 | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| Simple Case Folding | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| Case Folding | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ắ" U+1EAF Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute |
| 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 |