Ã

Ã/ã (a with tilde) is a letter used in some languages, generally considered a variant of the letter A.

In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal near-open central vowel, [ɐ̃] (its exact height varies from near-open to mid according to dialect). It appears on its own and as part of the diphthongs ãe [ɐ̃j̃] and ão [ɐ̃w̃].

The symbol is used for the nasal vowel /ã/ in Guaraní, Kashubian and Taa.

In Aromanian, the symbol is used for the mid-central vowel /ə/.

In Vietnamese, it represents [aː] in a high breaking-rising tone. This also used in !Xóõ.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ã/ stands for a nasal open front unrounded vowel, as in Quebec French maman and Jean.

It is often produced by text encoding errors.

The letter was also used in the Greenlandic alphabet to represent a long vowel ([aː]) next to a gemiated consonant, but now it is replaced with Aa (example: Ãpilátoq → Aappilattoq).

All Unicode values start with 0, so the Unicode value for ã is actually 0227, not 227.

See also

• Ñ
• Õ
• Tilde