Û
Û, û (u-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin script.[1]
Usage
Romanization
Romanization from Cyrillic
This letter is used in some standards of Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю:
- GOST 16876-71 table 1
- ISO 9 (ISO 9:1986 and ISO 9:1995)
Romanization from Chinese
It is used in Wade-Giles (one of the romanization systems in Chinese) for apical dental unrounded vowel as in tzû, tz'û, ssû, corresponds to present zi, ci, si in Pinyin respectively.
Romanization from Japanese
û represents うう in both Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki romanization systems.
General writing systems
Afrikaans
In Afrikaans, û is a punctuated form of u and a usage example includes "brûe". plural of "brug" (= bridge).
Emilian
Û represents [uː] in Emilian dialects: in the Bolognese dialect, anvûd [aŋˈvuːd] means "nephews".
French
In French, û does not change the pronunciation of the letter u except in jeune "young", which is pronounced differently from jeûne "a fast". In some other words like mû, the circumflex has no disambiguating value; attempts have been made to abolish it in such words. See Circumflex in French. Û also often appears in words that used to have an "s" after the "u": the French word for August, août, used to be written aoust.
Friulian
Û represents the sound /uː/.
Italian
Û is occasionally used to represent the sound /uː/ in words like fûr, a poetic contraction of furono (they were).
Kurdish
Û is used in Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet in the to represent a long close back rounded vowel /uː/.
Polish
In the Masovian dialect, û represents /ju:/.
Turkish
Û indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant: "sükûnet" (quietness) is pronounced /sycuːˈnet/.
Welsh
In Welsh, û is used to represent a long stressed u [ɨː] or [iː] when, without the circumflex, it would be pronounced as a short [ɨ] or [ɪ]: cytûn [kəˑtɨːn, kəˑtiːn] "agreed", bûm [bɨːm, biːm] "I was" as opposed to bum [bɨm, bɪm] "five" (soft-mutated prenominal form).
Character mappings
Preview | Û | û | ||
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Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX | ||
Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
Unicode | 219 | U+00DB | 251 | U+00FB |
UTF-8 | 195 155 | C3 9B | 195 187 | C3 BB |
Numeric character reference | Û | Û | û | û |
Named character reference | Û | û | ||
EBCDIC family | 251 | FB | 219 | DB |
ISO 8859-1/3/4/9/10/14/15/16 | 219 | DB | 251 | FB |
See also
References
- ^ "Unicode Character "Û" (U+00DB)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
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- History
- Spread
- Romanization
- Roman numerals
- Ligatures
Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
Letter U with diacritics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Úú | Ùù | Ŭŭ | Ûû | Ǔǔ | Ůů | Üü | Ǘǘ | Ǜǜ | Ǚǚ | Ǖǖ | Űű | Ũũ | Ṹṹ | Ųų | Ų́ų́ | Ų̃ų̃ | Ūū | Ṻṻ | Ū̀ū̀ | Ū́ū́ | Ū̃ū̃ | Ủủ | Ȕȕ | Ȗȗ | Ưư |
Ứứ | Ừừ | Ữữ | Ửử | Ựự | Ụụ | Ṳṳ | Ṷṷ | Ṵṵ | Ʉʉ | Ꞹꞹ | Ꞿꞿ | ᶙ | ꭒ | ||||||||||||
Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂, ◌̭ ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ââ | Ĉĉ | Ḓḓ | Êê | Ḙḙ | Ĝĝ | Ĥĥ | Î î | Ĵĵ | Ḽḽ | Ṋṋ | Ôô | Ŝŝ | Ṱṱ | Ûû | Ṷṷ | Ŵŵ | X̂x̂ | Ŷŷ | Ẑẑ |
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- ISO/IEC 646
- Unicode
- Western Latin character sets
- DIN 91379: Unicode subset for Europe