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See also: ˘, ◌͝◌, ◌̮, and ◌̑

◌̆	U+0306, ̆ COMBINING BREVE

← ◌̅
[U+0305]

Combining Diacritical Marks

◌̇ →
[U+0307]


A distinctive glyph is used in Cyrillic type

English Wikipedia has an article on:

breve

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̆

(IPA) A short sound.
Length marking is short ⟨ă⟩, default ⟨a⟩, half-long ⟨aˑ⟩, long ⟨aː⟩, over-long ⟨aːː⟩.

With a consonant, may be used to indicate a tap: e.g. ⟨ɢ̆ ʡ̆ ʎ̆ ʟ̆ n̆⟩.
(UPA) Short vowel (e.g. ă) or consonant (e.g. t̆ ); cf. superscripting for extra-short ᵃ, ᵗ.
Synonym: ◌͐
(Cyrillic) Marks several letters, including й, ў, ӂ, ӑ, ӗ.

English

Diacritical mark

◌̆

(lexicography) The breve, used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'short' sound: ⟨ă⟩ /æ/, ⟨ĕ⟩ /ɛ/, ⟨ĭ⟩ /ɪ/, ⟨ŏ⟩ /ɒ/, ⟨ŭ⟩ /ʌ/.
(poetry) Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is short. Also used alone to mark a syllable without stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨˘⟩.

Usage notes

(lexicography): ⟨◌͝◌⟩ is used for the digraph oo.
(poetry): ⟨◌̄⟩ is used for a long vowel/syllable.

Esperanto

Diacritical mark

◌̆

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called hoketo (“hooklet”) in Esperanto, and found on Ŭ/ŭ.

Romanian

Diacritical mark

◌̆

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called căciulă (“fur hat”) in Romanian, and found on Ă/ă.

Vietnamese

Diacritical mark

◌̆

A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu trăng (“moon mark”) in Vietnamese, and found on Ă/ă, Ằ/ằ, Ẳ/ẳ, Ẵ/ẵ, Ắ/ắ and Ặ/ặ.

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