Breve

Note that the breve is easily confused with the similar looking caron ˇ, especially in small font sizes.

Breve in Unicode

Characters with Breve

˘

◌̆

Ă

ă

Ắ

ắ

Ằ

ằ

Ẳ

ẳ

Ẵ

ẵ

Ặ

U+02D8

U+0306

U+0102

U+0103

U+1EAE

U+1EAF

U+1EB0

U+1EB1

U+1EB2

U+1EB3

U+1EB4

U+1EB5

U+1EB6

Breve

Combining Breve

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve

Latin Small Letter A With Breve

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Acute

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Acute

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Grave

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Grave

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Hook Above

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Hook Above

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Tilde

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Dot Below

ặ

Ĕ

ĕ

Ḝ

ḝ

Ğ

ğ

Ĭ

ĭ

Ŏ

ŏ

Ŭ

ŭ

U+1EB7

U+0114

U+0115

U+1E1C

U+1E1D

U+011E

U+011F

U+012C

U+012D

U+014E

U+014F

U+016C

U+016D

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Dot Below

Latin Capital Letter E With Breve

Latin Small Letter E With Breve

Latin Capital Letter E With Cedilla And Breve

Latin Small Letter E With Cedilla And Breve

Latin Capital Letter G With Breve

Latin Small Letter G With Breve

Latin Capital Letter I With Breve

Latin Small Letter I With Breve

Latin Capital Letter O With Breve

Latin Small Letter O With Breve

Latin Capital Letter U With Breve

Latin Small Letter U With Breve

Breve in Natlangs

Uses of Breve

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
Change of manner of articulation	Turkish	Ğğ /ɰ/	The realization [ɰ] only occurs in some dialects. Otherwise Ğğ represents a syllable break, length on the preceding vowel or [j], depending on the context.
Change of manner and place of articulation	Kazakh (2019 and 2021 alphabets as well as Kazinform's romanization)	Ğğ /ʁ/	Unaccented Gg stands for /ɡ/.
High tone	Min Dong (Fuzhou dialect, Foochow romanization)	Ăă /a˥, ɑ˥/, Ă̤ă̤ /ɛ˥, a˥/, Ĕĕ /ɛi˥/, Ĕ̤ĕ̤ /œ˥/, Ĭĭ /i˥/, Ŏŏ /ou˥/, Ŏ̤ŏ̤ /o˥, ɔ˥/, Ŭŭ /u˥/, Ṳ̆ṳ̆ /y˥/	Note that the letters here that contain ◌̤ are not precomposed characters.
Lax vowel	Moldovan, Romanian	Ăă /ə/
Short vowel	Vietnamese	Ăă /a˧/, Ắắ /a˧˥/, Ằằ /a̤˨˩/, Ẳẳ /a˧˩˧/, Ẵẵ /aˀ˧˥/, Ặặ /a̰ʔ˨˩/	Unaccented Aa generally stands for /aː/.
Silent vowel	Arabic (ISO/R 233 romanization)	Ăă [∅], Ĭĭ [∅], Ŭŭ [∅]	These letters are used for transcribing the Arabic letter ٱ when the vowel is unpronounced.

Breve in Phonetic Transcription

Uses of breve

Use	Transcription system	Notes
Extra short length	International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)	Used for marking that a phone is extra short. It is alternatively also used for creating symbols for certain sounds that do not have dedicated IPA letters.

Breve in Conlangs

Uses of Breve

Usage	Language	Creator	Letters	Notes
Absence of pitch accent	Inng (external transcription)	Qwynegold	Ăă /a/, Ĕĕ /ə, i/, Ĭĭ /i/, L̆l̆ /l̩/, M̆m̆ /ŋ̍/, N̆n̆ /ŋ̍/, Ŏŏ /u, ə, a/, Ŭŭ /u/	The breve here marks that the syllable is without accent, and that the actual tone of the syllable may start at varying heights depending on the environment. (See also Dot Below for another marking of accentless syllables in Inng.) Some of these accented letters only appear as part of a digraph when representing a certain sound.
Central vowel	Songulda (external romanization)	Qwynegold	Ĭĭ /ɨ/
Non-syllabic vowel	Esperanto	Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof	Ŭŭ /u̯/	This vowel is commonly found in the dipthongs /au̯/ and /eu̯/, but can occasionally be found in other positions too. Unaccented Uu is /u/, which appears in hiatus when next to another vowel.

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Breve Below
• Inverted Breve