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A breve ( Latin ''Brevis'' "short, brief") is a Diacritic al mark ˘, shaped like a little round cup, designed to indicate a short vowel, as opposed to the Macron ¯ which indicates long vowels. It is used this way in dictionaries and textbooks of Latin and some other languages. It looks similar to Caron or háček, but the caron has a sharp tip, whilst the breve is rounded. Compare Ǎ ǎ Ě ě Ǐ ǐ Ǒ ǒ Ǔ ǔ (caron) with Ă ă Ĕ ĕ Ĭ ĭ Ŏ ŏ Ŭ ŭ (breve). In the Cyrillic Alphabet , a breve is used for Й (short I). In Belarusian , it is used for both the Cyrillic Ў (U short) and Latin ( Łacinka ) Ŭ. Ў was also used in Cyrillic Uzbek under the Soviet Union . In the Chuvash a breve is used for Cyrillic letters (A-breve) and (Ye-breve). In other languages, it is used for other purposes. In Romanian it is used above the A to represent the Schwa (ə) vowel, as in ''măr'' (apple). In Esperanto it can be used above the U to form a non-syllabic U, similar to English W in sound. G-breve appears in the Azerbaijani , Tatar , and Turkish alphabets. Breve, together with Circumflex and Horn , are used in the Vietnamese Language to represent additional vowels. Note that Pinyin uses the Caron to indicate the third Tone of Mandarin Chinese , not the breve. McCune-Reischauer uses breves, not carons, over o and u to indicate Hangul ㅓ and ㅡ. ENCODING BREVES Unicode and HTML Numeric Entities for breve letters EXTERNAL LINKS |
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