Also known as A with macron
Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies. Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Aten (which represents a long A sound), Arabic, Hebrew, and some Latin texts (especially for learners). In Romanised Mandarin Chinese (pinyin) it is used to represent A spoken with a level high tone (first tone). It is used in some orthography-based transcriptions of English to represent the diphthong (see ).
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- A with macron
- Grapheme.letter
- Ā ā
- Grapheme.image
- Latin letter A with macron.svg
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.script
- Latin script
- Grapheme.fam1
- 𓃾
- Grapheme.fam2
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Sinaitic 'alp
- Grapheme.fam3
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Proto-Caanite Aleph
- Grapheme.fam4
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Phoenician Aleph
- Grapheme.fam5
- Α α
- Grapheme.fam6
- 𐌀class=skin-invert-image|20px|Greek Classical uncial
- Grapheme.fam7
- class=skin-invert-image|20px|Early Latin Aclass=skin-invert-image|20px|Latin 300 AD uncial, version 1
- Grapheme.fam8
- A a
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+0100, U+0101
- Grapheme.equivalents
- आ, آ, 𑆄
- Grapheme.direction
- left to right
- Grapheme.type
- alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic
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Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), is a grapheme, a Latin A with a macron, used in several orthographies. Ā is used to denote a long A. Examples are the Baltic languages (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Aten (which represents a long A sound), Arabic, Hebrew, and some Latin texts (especially for learners). In Romanised Mandarin Chinese (pinyin) it is used to represent A spoken with a level high tone (first tone). It is used in some orthography-based transcriptions of English to represent the diphthong (see ).
In the International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, Ā represents the open back unrounded vowel "आ", not to be confused with the similar Devanagari character for the mid central vowel, अ.
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