breve

• 一种弧形或半圆形的变音符号，置于元音上方，表示该元音发短音；也指含有这种符号的字母。

A diacritical mark shaped like a U placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound.

1. Diacritical markC1formal

   A U-shaped mark placed over a vowel to indicate that it is pronounced as a short sound.

   短音符

   • In the word 'căt', the breve over the 'a' shows it is a short vowel.
   • Linguists use a breve to mark short vowels in phonetic transcriptions.
   • The breve is the opposite of the macron, which indicates a long vowel.

   反义词macron