A with macron (Cyrillic)
| Cyrillic letter A with macron | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ꙕ | Ю̂ |  |  | Ꙗ | |||
| Я̈ | Я̂ | Я̨ | Ԙ | Ѥ | Ѧ | Ꙙ | Ѫ |
| Ꙛ | Ѩ | Ꙝ | Ѭ | Ѯ | Ѱ | Ѳ | Ѵ |
| Ѷ | Ꙟ | ||||||
A with macron (А̄ а̄; italics: А̄ а̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with macron (Ā ā Ā ā).
A with macron is used in the
]A with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages in some dialects.[citation needed]
Usage
South Slavic languages
A with macron is used in the South Slavic languages mostly in Bulgarian usually used before or after another stressed vowel: глāвà, крāкà, овчāрè, ковāчè, юнāцѝ, and граждāнè.[2][3]
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̄ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̄ (U+0304).
| Preview | А | а | ̄ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | COMBINING MACRON | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1040 | U+0410 | 1072 | U+0430 | 772 | U+0304 |
| UTF-8 | 208 144 | D0 90 | 208 176 | D0 B0 | 204 132 | CC 84 |
| Numeric character reference | А |
А |
а |
а |
̄ |
̄ |
| Named character reference | А | а | ||||
See also
- A a : Latin letter A
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
- А а : Cyrillic letter А
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ISBN 5-09-002312-3.
- ^ "Accent in Bulgarian dialects". October 25, 2012.
- ^ "Bulgarian dialects". May 9, 2013.
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