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
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/.

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.

See Also

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