Ā

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 ).

In the Vinony graph

Within Vinony's link graph, Ā is referenced by 76 other articles, and connects out to macron below, Ă and Â.

It is catalogued under topics including Latin letters with diacritics, Letters with macron and Phonetic transcription symbols.

Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.

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