U+1EB2 "Ẳ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Hook Above Unicode Character
U+1EB2 "Ẳ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Hook Above is a specialized grapheme used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel sound "a". It combines a base Latin capital letter A with a breve diacritic, which indicates a short vowel quality, and a hook above, which marks the hỏi tone, a mid-low falling-rising tone that often carries a questioning or hesitant intonation in Vietnamese speech. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block in Unicode, ensuring proper digital representation for orthographic accuracy in Vietnamese texts. Its encoding allows for consistent display and storage across computer systems, preserving the linguistic distinctiveness required for correct pronunciation and meaning in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| 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+0309 Combining Hook Above |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb2 |
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 | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| Case Folding | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẳ" U+1EB3 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above |
| 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 |