A with breve (Cyrillic)
Cyrillic letter used in Chuvash and Khanty
A with breve (Ӑ ӑ; italics: Ӑ ӑ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. It may be a homoglyph of the Latin letter A with breve (Ă ă Ă ă) unless the typeface distinguishes between the Latin and Cyrillic breve.
It is used in the Chuvash and in both Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.
In certain orthographical varieties of Bulgarian, such as in the Primer with Various Instructions, this letter was used for the sound /ɤ/. In modern Bulgarian, this sound is represented by the letter Ъ.
01Usage
In Chuvash, ⟨ӑ⟩ represents the mid central vowel [ə], as ⟨a⟩ in word "era". It is always reduced and can occur stressed only in the first syllable of a polysyllabic word. The sound varies in its phonetic realization from a reduced /i/ or [ə] (like the pronunciation of ⟨a⟩ in English "sofa") to a labialized version of the ⟨a⟩ in English "all" (with rounded lips). It is sometimes so reduced as to sound coalesced with the following consonant as in сӑтел table, /stel/.
02Computing codes
| Preview | Ӑ | ӑ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE |
CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1232 | U+04D0 | 1233 | U+04D1 |
| UTF-8 | 211 144 | D3 90 | 211 145 | D3 91 |
| Numeric character reference | Ӑ | Ӑ | ӑ | ӑ |
Sources and credits
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