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Ɯ

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Turned M
Ɯ ɯ
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of originInternational Phonetic Alphabet, Yakut language, Tsakhur, Standard Zhuang, Dan language, Chami language
Sound values/ɨˤ/, /ɯ/
In UnicodeU+019C, U+026F
History
Development
  • Ɯ ɯ
Other
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ɯ (minuscule: ɯ) (also ) is a letter that was used in the Zhuang alphabet from 1957 to 1986 to represent a close back unrounded vowel /ɯ/. At some time in or before 1986, it was replaced with W. It was also used in Semyon Novgorodov's Yakut alphabet.

In the International Phonetic Alphabet, it is used to represent the same vowel.

In some fonts, it is homoglyphic with the Cyrillic letter Sha, and in this manner it was used in the Tsakhur language,[1] representing the pharyngealized close central unrounded vowel /ɨˤ/. It is represented today by the digraph ⟨ЫI⟩.[citation needed]

Usage on computers

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Character information
Preview Ɯ ɯ
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER TURNED M LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED M
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 412 U+019C 623 U+026F
UTF-8 198 156 C6 9C 201 175 C9 AF
Numeric character reference Ɯ Ɯ ɯ ɯ

References

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  1. ^ Joomagueldinov, Nurlan; Pentzlin, Karl; Yevlampiev, Ilya (October 18, 2011). "Proposal to encode Latin letters used in the Former Soviet Union" (PDF) (Working Group Document). Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set. International Organization for Standardization. Retrieved April 28, 2023.