Ê

Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter in the Friulan, Kurdish and Vietnamese languages. The letter also appears in Afrikaans, French, Portuguese, Welsh, and Albanian dialects as a variant of the letter "e", as well as being used in certain Chinese and Ukrainian transliteration systems.

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Usage in various languages

Afrikaans

Ê is not considered a separate letter in Afrikaans, but rather, as aforementioned, a variation of the letter "e".

Chinese

In Chinese pinyin ê represents /ɛ/. It corresponds to ㄝ in zhuyin symbol.

French

In French, ê changes the pronunciation of e from /ə/ to /ɛ/. Diacritics are not usually considered to be letters of the French alphabet.

Friulan

Ê is used to represent the /e/ and /ɛː/ sounds.

Kurdish

Ê is the 7th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /ɛ/.

Portuguese

In Portuguese, ê is used for stressing and is pronounced /e/.

Ukrainian

Ê is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Є.

Vietnamese

Ê is the 9th letter of the Vietnamese alphabet and represents /e/ or /ɜ/. In Vietnamese phonology, diacritics can be added to form the following five forms to represent five tones of ê.

Welsh

Ê stands for the long sound of "e" (namely, /e:/) when that letter appears before "l", "n", and "r", and is also used to distinguish certain word pairs, e.g. gem (gem) and gêm (game).

Character mappings

Unicode character set contains 2 precomposed characters as Ế / ế, and Ề / ề, to represent the second and the fourth tone of ê. The first and the third tone of ê have to be represented by combining diacritical marks, like ê̄ (ê̄) and ê̌ (ê̌).

Charset Unicode ISO 8859-1, 3, 9, 14, 15, 16
Majuscule Ê U+00CA Ê latin capital letter e with circumflex (HTML: Ê Ê) CA
Minuscule ê U+00EA ê latin small letter e with circumflex (HTML: ê ê) EA

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Letter E with diacritics
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Letters using circumflex accent ( ◌̂ )
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