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Ă (
Malaysian alphabets, after A
.
Ă/ă is also used in several languages for transliteration of the Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.[1]
Romanian
The sound represented in
mid-central vowel /ə/, i.e. schwa.[1][2] Unlike in English, Catalan and French but like in Indonesian (using e rather than ă), the vowel can be stressed.[3] There are words in which it is the only vowel, such as măr /mər/ ("apple") or văd /vəd/ ("I see"). Additionally, some words that also contain other vowels can have the stress on ă like cărțile /ˈkərt͡sile/ ("the books") and odăi /oˈdəj/ ("rooms"). Another grapheme <a> with diacritic in Romanian is <â
>.
Vietnamese
Ă is the 2nd letter of the
tonal language this letter may have any one of the 5 tonal symbols above or below it (or even no accent at all, since the Vietnamese first tone is identified by the lack of accent marks, see also Vietnamese phonology): Ằ ằ, Ắ ắ, Ẳ ẳ, Ẵ ẵ, Ặ ặ.[4]
Malay
The sound represented in pre-1972
New Rumi Spelling
.
Balinese
Ă or ă are used in Balinese romanization, e.g. Kabupatén Tăbăṅan (Tabanan Regency ).
Pronunciation respelling for English
In some systems for
short A sound, /æ/
.
Character mappings
| Preview | ă | Ă | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 259 | U+0103 | 258 | U+0102 |
| UTF-8 | 196 131 | C4 83 | 196 130 | C4 82 |
| Numeric character reference | ă |
ă |
Ă |
Ă |
| Named character reference | ă | Ă | ||
16 |
259 | 103 | 258 | 102 |
See also
Look up ă in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- A with breve (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter а with breve, visually indistinguishable
- Breve
References
- ^ ISSN 1223-7248. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- . Retrieved 3 February 2024.
- ISSN 0079-1636.
- ^ "Modified Letters | Vietnamese Typography". vietnamesetypography.com. Retrieved 2024-02-02.