U+0103 Latin Small Letter A with Breve
U+0103 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Latin Extended-A in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Lowercase Letter and is mainly used in the Latin script. Its uppercase variant is Latin Capital Letter A with Breve and its titlecase variant is Latin Capital Letter A with Breve.
The glyph is a canonical composition of the glyphs Latin Small Letter A, Combining Breve. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+0103 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Ă (upper case) or ă (lower case), usually referred to in English as A-breve, is a letter used in standard Romanian and Vietnamese orthographies. In Romanian, it is used to represent the mid-central unrounded vowel, while in Vietnamese it represents the short a sound. It is the second letter of the Romanian, Vietnamese, and the pre-1972 Malaysian alphabets, after A.
Ă/ă is also used in several languages for transliteration of the Bulgarian letter Ъ/ъ.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 259 |
| UTF-8 | C4 83 |
| UTF-16 | 01 03 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 01 03 |
| URL-Quoted | %C4%83 |
| HTML hex reference | ă |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ă |
| HTML named entity | ă |
| Encoding: CP852 (hex bytes) | C7 |
| Encoding: CP1250 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: CP1258 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: EUC_JP (hex bytes) | 8F AB A5 |
| Encoding: EUC_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | AA C9 |
| Encoding: EUC_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | AA C9 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 30 8C 30 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_1 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 2B 25 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 2B 25 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2004 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 51 2A 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_3 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 4F 2A 49 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_EXT (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 44 2B 25 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_2 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: ISO8859_16 (hex bytes) | E3 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JIS_2004 (hex bytes) | 85 C7 |
| Encoding: SHIFT_JISX0213 (hex bytes) | 85 C7 |
| Encoding: CP870 (hex bytes) | 46 |
| LATEX | \u{a} |
| AGL: Latin-3 | abreve |
| AGL: Latin-4 | abreve |
| AGL: Latin-5 | abreve |
| Adobe Glyph List | abreve |
| digraph | a( |
Related Characters
- Latin Capital Letter A with Breve
- Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Acute
- Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Grave
- Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Hook Above
- Latin Small Letter A with Breve and Tilde
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE | |
| LATIN SMALL LETTER A BREVE | |
| Latin Extended-A | |
| Lowercase Letter | |
| Latin | |
| Left To Right | |
| Not Reordered | |
| canonical | |
| Latin Small Letter A Combining Breve | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Breve | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Breve | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Breve | |
| Latin Capital Letter A with Breve | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| Yes | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| No | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Lower | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Alphabetic Letter | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Alphabetic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Latin Small Letter A with Breve | |
| R |