A with grave (А̀ а̀; italics: А̀ а̀) a letter of the Cyrillic script. In all its forms it looks exactly like the Latin letter A with grave (À à À à).
A with grave is used in Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian languages.
Computing codes
Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter А̀ is not represented directly by a precomposed character in Unicode either; it has to be composed as А+◌̀ (U+0300).
Preview | А | а | ̀ | |||
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Unicode name | CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER A | CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A | COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT | |||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 1040 | U+0410 | 1072 | U+0430 | 768 | U+0300 |
UTF-8 | 208 144 | D0 90 | 208 176 | D0 B0 | 204 128 | CC 80 |
Numeric character reference | А |
А |
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̀ |
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Named character reference | А | а |
Slavic languages
⟨А̀⟩ and any other vowel with the acute or grave accent can be found in early Slavic languages as stressed variants of regular (unaccented) vowels until the early 20th century, like Russian вѝна ('wines') vs. вина̀ ('guilt'). Recently, East Slavonic typographies have begun using the acute accent (ви́на) instead of the grave accent (вина́) to denote stress.[1]
Stress marks are optional in East Slavic languages and are regularly used in several special books like dictionaries, primers, or textbooks for foreigners, as stress is very unpredictable in all of these. However, in general texts, stress marks are rarely used. Mainly to prevent ambiguity or to show the pronunciation of foreign words.[2]
Related letters and other similar characters
- A a : Latin letter A
- À à : Latin letter À — a variant of ⟨a⟩ used in languages including French, Italian, and Portuguese
- А а : Cyrillic letter А
- Cyrillic characters in Unicode
References
- ^ "Russian accents - where to put?". March 2012.
- ^ "Stress marks in Russian".