Breve: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 07:35, 12 January 2015

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

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

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]

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 == Breve in Unicode ==
 {| class="wikitable"
-|+ Precomposed Letters with Breve
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 | style="font-size:180%" | ˘ || style="font-size:180%" | ◌̆ || style="font-size:180%" | Ă || style="font-size:180%" | ă || style="font-size:180%" | Ắ || style="font-size:180%" | ắ || style="font-size:180%" | Ằ || style="font-size:180%" | ằ || style="font-size:180%" | Ẳ || style="font-size:180%" | ẳ || style="font-size:180%" | Ẵ || style="font-size:180%" | ẵ || style="font-size:180%" | Ặ
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