n. 1.【音乐】二全音符(‖0‖)。 2.【印刷】(母音上的)短音符号(?)。 3.(法律诉讼的)令状;(教皇的)训谕示;(国王的)敕令。
a diacritical mark (U-shaped) placed over a vowel to indicate a short sound
A breve (; ; from the Latin brevis “short, brief”) is a diacritical mark??, shaped like the bottom half of a circle. It resembles the caron (the wedge or há?ek in Czech), but is rounded, while the caron has a sharp tip.