Ā

Ā, lowercase ā, 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, Polynesian languages, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, 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 has also been accepted in IPA in 2018. It is used in some orthography-based transcriptions of English to represent the diphthong /eɪ/ (see Vowel length § Traditional long and short vowels in English orthography).

In Old Malay, Ā represents mid central vowel.

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.

In the languages other than Sanskrit,[1] Ā is sorted with other A's and is not considered a separate letter. The macron is only considered when sorting words that are otherwise identical. For example, in Māori, tāu (meaning your) comes after tau (meaning year), but before taumata (hill).

Computer encoding
Character information
PreviewĀā
Unicode nameLATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH MACRONLATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON
Encodingsdecimalhexdecimalhex
Unicode256U+0100257U+0101
UTF-8196 128C4 80196 129C4 81
Numeric character referenceĀĀāā
Named character referenceĀā
ISO 8859-4/10192C0224E0
ISO 8859-13194C2226E2
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References
  1. "Sanskrit Online Dictionary". Sanskrit Documents Collection. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
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