U+1EB1 "ằ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EB1 "ằ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave is a composite glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents the vowel sound "a" pronounced with both a short, clipped quality indicated by the breve and a low, falling tone marked by the grave accent. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is encoded for digital text to accurately represent the orthography of the Vietnamese language, in which diacritical marks are essential for distinguishing meaning between otherwise identical syllables. Its use ensures proper written communication in Vietnamese, particularly in contexts where tonal distinctions are critical.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ă" U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve "̀" U+0300 Combining Grave Accent |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ằ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ằ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb1 |
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 | "Ằ" U+1EB0 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ằ" U+1EB0 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ằ" U+1EB0 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ằ" U+1EB0 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Grave |
| 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 |