U+1EB4 "Ẵ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EB4 "Ẵ" Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde is a precomposed character used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific vowel sound. It combines a base capital letter A with two diacritical marks a breve, which indicates a short or clipped pronunciation, and a tilde, which signals a rising then falling tone. This glyph is employed in written Vietnamese to denote the phoneme /a/ with a breve, such as in the word "Ẵm" meaning to cradle or hug, and it helps distinguish tonal nuances that are essential for proper meaning in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| 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+0303 Combining Tilde |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | Ẵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | Ẵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb4 |
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 | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| Lowercase Code Point | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| Simple Case Folding | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| Case Folding | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| Cased | Yes |
| Changes When Casefolded | Yes |
| Changes When Casemapped | Yes |
| Changes When Lowercased | Yes |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ẵ" U+1EB5 Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde |
| 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 |