Ye with breve

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ĕ.
Ye with breve
Usage
Writing systemCyrillic
TypeAlphabetic
Sound values[ɘ], [ə]
History
TransliterationsË ë

Ye with breve (Ӗ ӗ; italics: Ӗ ӗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ie with breve".[1]

Ye with breve is used only in the Chuvash language and Albanian language + Cyrillic (Shqip) to represent the close-mid central unrounded vowel /ɘ/, and mid central vowel /ə/.[2]

Computing codes

Character information
Preview Ӗ ӗ
Unicode name CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER
IE WITH BREVE 		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER
IE WITH BREVE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 1238 U+04D6 1239 U+04D7
UTF-8 211 150 D3 96 211 151 D3 97
Numeric character reference Ӗ Ӗ ӗ ӗ

See also

References

  1. ^ "Cyrillic: Range: 0400–04FF". pp 38–43 of The Unicode Standard, Version 6.0 (2010). p. 43. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  2. ^ Ager, Simon (ed.). "Chuvash (Чӑвашла чӗлхи)". Omniglot: Writing systems & languages of the world. Retrieved 2011-04-25.


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