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.