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Ā, lowercase ā ("A with macron"), 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 (e.g. Latvian), Polynesian languages, including Māori and Moriori, some romanizations of Japanese, Persian, Pashto, Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (which represents a long A sound) and Arabic, and some Latin texts (especially for ...
A macron (/ ˈ m æ k r ɒ n, ˈ m eɪ-/ MAK-ron, MAY-) is a diacritical mark: it is a straight bar ¯ placed above a letter, usually a vowel.Its name derives from Ancient Greek μακρόν (makrón) 'long' because it was originally used to mark long or heavy syllables in Greco-Roman metrics.
The definition of a Latin-script letter for this list is a character encoded in the Unicode Standard that has a script property of 'Latin' and the general category of 'Letter'. An overview of the distribution of Latin-script letters in Unicode is given in Latin script in Unicode.
A dot above and a dot below a letter represent [a], transliterated as a or ă, Two diagonally-placed dots above a letter represent [ɑ], transliterated as ā or â or å, Two horizontally-placed dots below a letter represent [ɛ], transliterated as e or ĕ; often pronounced [ɪ] and transliterated as i in the East Syriac dialect,
(a with a bar over it) before (from Latin ante) before: A: assessment a.a. of each (from Latin ana ana) amino acids: A or Ala – alanine; C or Cys – cysteine; D or Asp – aspartic acid; E or Glu – glutamic acid; F or Phe – phenylalanine; H or His – histidine; I or Ile – isoleucine; K or Lys – lysine; L or Leu – leucine; M or Met ...
Latin Capital Letter B with dot above U+1E03 ḃ Latin Small Letter B with dot above U+1E04 Ḅ Latin Capital Letter B with dot below U+1E05 ḅ Latin Small Letter B with dot below U+1E06 Ḇ Latin Capital Letter B with line below U+1E07 ḇ Latin Small Letter B with line below U+1E08 Ḉ Latin Capital Letter C with cedilla and acute U+1E09 ḉ
An overline, overscore, or overbar, is a typographical feature of a horizontal line drawn immediately above the text. In old mathematical notation, an overline was called a vinculum, a notation for grouping symbols which is expressed in modern notation by parentheses, though it persists for symbols under a radical sign.
Latin Capital Letter B with dot above 0647 ISO 8859-14: U+1E03 ḃ Latin Small Letter B with dot above 0648 U+1E04 Ḅ Latin Capital Letter B with dot below U+1E05 ḅ Latin Small Letter B with dot below U+1E06 Ḇ Latin Capital Letter B with line below U+1E07 ḇ Latin Small Letter B with line below U+1E08 Ḉ