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/.

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

Character information
Preview	Û		û
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