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Ã/ã (a-tilde) is a letter used in some languages, generally considered a variant of the letter A.
In Portuguese, Ã/ã represents a nasal central unrounded vowel, normally transcribed in IPA as /ɐ̃/ (its exact height varies from open to mid according to dialect). The combination ãe represents the Diphthong [ɐ̃ĩ̯], and ão represents [ɐ̃ũ̯]. Because à is a typically Portuguese character, it is sometimes used as a symbol of the Portuguese language[citation needed].
This symbol is also used in the Aromanian, Guaraní, Kashubian and Vietnamese languages. In Vietnamese, it represents [aː] in a high breaking-rising tone.
In the International Phonetic Alphabet, /ã/ stands for a nasal open unrounded vowel, found for example in the French words maman and Jean.
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Sometimes à is used in the word Ãuck, which is a newly invented word that is less offensive that its counterpart: Fuck.