Û
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:
- 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.
General writing systems
Afrikaans
In Afrikaans, û is a punctuated form of u and a usage example includes "brûe", plural of "brug" (= bridge).
Emilian-Romagnol
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 still often 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 fûrono (they were).
Kurdish
Û is used in Kurmanji alphabet in the to represent a close central rounded vowel, /ʉ/.
Polish
In the Masovian dialect, û represents /ju:/.
Turkish
Û indicates palatalization of the preceding consonant: "sükûnet" (quietness) is pronounced /sycuːˈnet/.
Character mappings
| Preview | Û | û | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | decimal | 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 |