U+1EB0 "Ằ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave Unicode Character
U+1EB0 "Ằ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave is a precomposed letter used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a low, falling, and then slightly rising tone on the vowel "a" when combined with a breve, which indicates a short or checked sound. This character is formed by adding both a breve (a curved diacritic above the letter) and a grave accent (a left-leaning mark) atop the uppercase Latin letter A, allowing it to be displayed as a single encoded unit rather than a sequence of combining marks. In practice, it appears in Vietnamese text as a distinct grapheme for words like "Ằm" (meaning to hold in the arms), and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation, sorting, and searchability across systems that support the Vietnamese language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Breve 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 | "Ă" U+0102 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ằ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ằ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb0 |
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 | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Simple Case Folding | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Case Folding | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ằ" U+1EB1 Latin Small Letter A with Breve 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 |