Û

Û, û (u-circumflex) is a letter of the French, Friulian, Kurdish, and Turkish alphabets. This letter was used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю and also 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. It is also in Taos.

Usage in various languages

Afrikaans

In Afrikaans, û is a punctuated form of u and a usage example includes "brûe", plural of "brug" (= bridge).

French

In French, û does not change the pronunciation of the letter u. In some words, it is used to distinguish two homographs (such as jeune "young" versus jeûne "a fast"). In certain other words, such as mû, the circumflex has no disambiguating value; attempts have been made to abolish it in words such as these. See use of the circumflex in French.

Friulian

Û is used to represent the sound /uː/.

Kurdish

Û is used in Latin Kurmanjî in the Kurdish alphabet to represent a close central rounded vowel, /ʉ/.

Turkish

Û is used like the letter "U" while reading, but in some irregular words such as "sükûnet" (quietness) are pronounced as /sycunet/.

Character mappings

Charset	Unicode	ISO 8859-1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Û	U+00DB	DB
Minuscule û	U+00FB	FB

See also

• Circumflex

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	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	Ūū	Ṻṻ	Ủủ	Ȕȕ	Ȗȗ	Ưư	Ứứ	Ừừ	Ữữ	Ửử	Ựự
Ụụ	Ṳṳ	Ṷṷ	Ṵṵ	Ʉʉ	ᵾ	ᶙ
Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂ )
Ââ	Ĉĉ	Êê	Ĝĝ	Ĥĥ	Î î	Ĵĵ	Ôô	Ŝŝ	Ûû	Ŵŵ	Ŷŷ	Ẑẑ
Related
History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646