ŭ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "u"

ŭ U+016D, ŭ LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH BREVE Composition: u [U+0075] + ◌̆ [U+0306] ← Ŭ [U+016C] Latin Extended-A Ů → [U+016E]

Translingual

Letter

ŭ (lower case, upper case Ŭ)

1. (international standards) Transliterates Malayalam ്, specifically word-finally, where it indicates /ɨ̆/.

English

Symbol

ŭ

1. (lexicography) A dictionary transcription for the STRUT vowel

Belarusian

Letter

ŭ (lower case, upper case Ŭ)

1. The 22nd letter of the Belarusian Łacinka alphabet.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): (in a syllable coda) /u̯/

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(letter)

• IPA^(key): /ˈu̯o/

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Letter

ŭ (lower case, upper case Ŭ)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called ŭo and written in the Latin script. An element of the digraphs aŭ and eŭ.

Usage notes

The letter ŭ does not occur in syllable onsets in ordinary vocabulary, and it is debatable how to analyze it phonologically when it appears as an onset in onomatopoeia and the name of the letter itself. Besides the letter name ŭo, created to match the pattern of the other letters despite its violation of Esperanto phonology, Zamenhof only uses it in onset position in ŭa!, the sound made by a crying child, and in the hapax kŭaks (alternatively kvak), the croak of a toad.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) litero; A a, B b, C c, Ĉ ĉ, D d, E e, F f, G g, Ĝ ĝ, H h, Ĥ ĥ, I i, J j, Ĵ ĵ, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, R r, S s, Ŝ ŝ, T t, U u, Ŭ ŭ, V v, Z z

Jarai

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /u/

Letter

ŭ (lower case, upper case Ŭ)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Jarai alphabet, written in the Latin script.