U+1EB5 "ẵ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde Unicode Character

U+1EB5 "ẵ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde is a composite glyph used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet to represent a specific tonal variant of the vowel /a/. It combines a base Latin lowercase 'a' with a breve (˘) above it, which indicates a short or clipped vowel sound, and a tilde (˜) on top of the breve, which marks the ngã tone, a mid-rising, creaky or glottalized tone in Vietnamese. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block and is essential for accurately writing and rendering certain Vietnamese words, such as "ẵm" meaning to carry in the arms or "hẵng" meaning yet or still.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1EB5
Version Added	1.1
Name	Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde
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+0303 Combining Tilde

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	ẵ
HTML Hex Encoding	ẵ
UTF-8 Encoding	0xE1 0xBA 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1EB5
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001EB5
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1eb5

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	"Ẵ" U+1EB4 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde
Simple Titlecase Code Point	"Ẵ" U+1EB4 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde
Uppercase Code Point	"Ẵ" U+1EB4 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde
Titlecase Code Point	"Ẵ" U+1EB4 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Tilde
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