Û, û (u-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin script.
Usage
Romanization
Romanization from Cyrillic
This letter is used in some standards of
Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю:
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GOST 16876-71 table 1
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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 language) 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 .
Italian
Û is occasionally used to represent the sound in words like
fûr, a poetic contraction of
furono (they were).
Kurdish
Û is used in the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet to represent a long close back rounded vowel .
Polish
In the
Masovian dialect,
û represents /ju:/.
Turkish
Û indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant: "sükûnet" (
quietness) is pronounced .
Welsh
In
Welsh language,
û is used to represent a long stressed
u or when, without the circumflex, it would be pronounced as a short or :
cytûn "agreed",
bûm "I was" as opposed to
bum "five" (soft-mutated prenominal form).
Character mappings
See also
