Ã
Ã/ã (a with tilde) is a letter used in some languages, generally considered a variant of the letter A.
In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal near-open central vowel, [ɐ̃] (its exact height varies from near-open to mid according to dialect). It appears on its own and as part of the diphthongs ãe [ɐ̃j̃] and ão [ɐ̃w̃].
The symbol is used for the nasal vowel /ã/ in Guaraní, Kashubian and Taa.
In Aromanian, the symbol is used for the mid-central vowel /ə/.
In Vietnamese, it represents [aː] in a high breaking-rising tone. This also used in !Xóõ.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ã/ stands for a nasal open front unrounded vowel, as in Quebec French maman and Jean.
The letter was also used in the Greenlandic alphabet to represent a long vowel ([aː]) next to a geminated consonant, but now it is replaced with Aa (example: Ãpilátoq → Aappilattoq).
| Preview | Ã | ã | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE | LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Unicode | 195 | U+00C3 | 227 | U+00E3 |
| UTF-8 | 195 131 | C3 83 | 195 163 | C3 A3 |
| Numeric character reference | Ã | Ã | ã | ã |
| Named character reference | Ã | ã | ||
| EBCDIC family | 102 | 66 | 70 | 46 |
| ISO 8859-1/4/9/10/14/15 | 195 | C3 | 227 | E3 |