A with macron (А̄ а̄; italics: А̄ а̄) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with macron (Ā ā Ā ā).
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A with macron is used in the Aleut (Bering dialect),[1] Evenki, Ingush, Mansi, Nanai, Orok, Ulch, Kildin Sami, Selkup, and Chechen languages.[citation needed]
A with macron also appears in the Bulgarian and Serbian languages in some dialects.[2]
Usage
editSouth Slavic languages
editA with macron is used in the South Slavic languages mostly in Bulgarian usually used before or after another stressed vowel: глāвà, крāкà, овчāрè, ковāчè, юнāцѝ, and граждāнè.[2][3]
Computing codes
editBeing a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̄ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̄ (U+0304).
| Preview | А | а | ̄ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | COMBINING MACRON | |||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 1040 | U+0410 | 1072 | U+0430 | 772 | U+0304 |
| UTF-8 | 208 144 | D0 90 | 208 176 | D0 B0 | 204 132 | CC 84 |
| Numeric character reference | А |
А |
а |
а |
̄ |
̄ |
| Named character reference | А | а | ||||
See also
edit- A a : Latin letter A
- Ā ā : Latin letter A with macron - a Latvian, Latgalian, Livonian, and Samogitian letter
- А а : Cyrillic letter А
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
edit- ^ Головко, Е. В. (1994). Словарь алеутско-русский и русско-алеутский (беринговский диалект) [Aleut-Russian and Russian-Aleut Dictionary (Bering dialect)]. Отд-ние изд-ва "Просвещение". p. 14. ISBN 5-09-002312-3.
- ^ a b "Accent in Bulgarian dialects". October 25, 2012.
- ^ "Bulgarian dialects". May 9, 2013.
