A with breve (Cyrillic)

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ă.

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.

А with breve
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ə], [ɐ], [ɤ]
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

It is used in the Chuvash and in both Eastern Khanty and Northern Khanty alphabets. It appears in some Nenets dictionaries as well.^[1]

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.^[2]

Usage

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/.

Computing codes

Character information

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

See also

• А а : Cyrillic letter A
• Ă ă : Latin letter A with breve - a Romanian and Vietnamese letter