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Also known as U-umlaut, U with umlaut, U with diaeresis, U-diaeresis
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets, such as those of a number of Romance languages, it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and Turkish ones treat it as a letter in its own right. In those cases it typically represents a close front rounded vowel .
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- U with umlaut/diaeresis
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- UE
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- Uͤ uͤ
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11 sectionsContents
- U-umlaut
- Letter Ü
- U-diaeresis
- Usage in phonetic alphabets
- Typography
- Computing codes
- Tonal marks for Hanyu Pinyin
- Uralic Phonetic Alphabet symbols related to Ü
- Keyboarding
- See also
- References
Ü (lowercase ü) is a Latin script character composed of the letter U and the diaeresis diacritical mark. In some alphabets, such as those of a number of Romance languages, it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the Azerbaijani, Estonian, German, Hungarian and Turkish ones treat it as a letter in its own right. In those cases it typically represents a close front rounded vowel .
Although not a part of their alphabet, Ü also appears in languages such as Finnish and Swedish when retained in foreign proper names like München ("Munich"). A small number of Dutch and Afrikaans words employ the character to mark vowel hiatus (e.g. reünie /reːyˈni/ ("reunion"), a loanword marked with diaeresis to suppress the native reading of eu as a digraph pronounced /øː/).