U+1EB7 "ặ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1EB7 "ặ" Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Dot Below is a precomposed character used primarily in the Vietnamese alphabet, where it represents a distinct vowel sound produced by combining a breve over the letter "a" with a dot underneath it. The breve indicates a short, clipped pronunciation, while the dot below marks the low, glottalized falling tone, making this character essential for accurately writing and reading Vietnamese words like "mặt" meaning face. This character is part of the Latin Extended Additional block, designed to support the orthographic needs of languages that use Latin script with complex diacritic combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1EB7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Dot Below |
| Block | Latin Extended Additional |
| General Category | Lowercase Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ạ" U+1EA1 Latin Small Letter A with Dot Below "̆" U+0306 Combining Breve |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ặ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ặ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xBA 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1EB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001EB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1eb7 |
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 | "Ặ" U+1EB6 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Dot Below |
| Simple Titlecase Code Point | "Ặ" U+1EB6 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Dot Below |
| Uppercase Code Point | "Ặ" U+1EB6 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Dot Below |
| Titlecase Code Point | "Ặ" U+1EB6 Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and Dot Below |
| 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 |