A̍, or a̍, called "A with vertical line", is a letter used in the standard, unified spelling in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system for writing Taiwanese Minnan. It consists of the letter A with a vertical line appearing as a diacritic above it.

Uses

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The standard, unified spelling of Democratic Republic of the Congo uses the vertical line to indicate the middle tone in tonal languages needing to distinguish it. The 'a̍' represents an 'a' with a medium tone.

Taiwan

In the pe̍h-ōe-jī and the Taiwanese romanization system used to write Minnan, the 'a̍' represents an 'a' with tone 8 a˥˥.

Digital encoding

The A with vertical line can be represented in Unicode as a breakdown into the following pairs of characters, each consisting of a Latin letter followed by a diacritic.

Form Representation Code points Descriptions
upper case A̍ U+0041U+030D Latin Capital Letter A
Combining Vertical Line Above
lower case a̍ U+0061U+030D Latin Small Letter A
Combining Vertical Line Above

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