Natlang Uses of Breve

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

Breve in Unicode

Precomposed Letters 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

Natlang Examples

Uses of Breve

Usage	Language	Letters	Notes
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/.[1]

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet