Ê

Latin letter E with circumflex

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E with circumflex
Usage
Writing system	Latin script
Type	alphabetic
Phonetic usage	[ 𐌄 E e Ê
Transliteration equivalents	Єє, ﻉ
Other
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Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter of the Latin alphabet

Ê is not considered a separate letter in Afrikaans but a variation of "E". The circumflex changes the pronunciation of "e" to be /ɛː/ (or /æː/ if the succeeding consonant is either a dorsal or a liquid)

Chinese

In the

In Pe̍h-ōe-jī, ê is the fifth tone of e: ê (的; possessive, adjectival suffix).

French

Diacritics are not considered to be distinct letters of the

Friulian

Ê represents /eː/ and /ɛː/.

Khmer

Ê is used in UNGEGN romanization system for Khmer to represent /ae/ and /ɛː/, for example Khmêr (ខ្មែរ [kʰmae]) and Dângrêk Mountains (ដងរែក [ɗɑːŋrɛːk]).

Kurdish

Ê is the 7th letter of the

Norwegian Nynorsk

In Nynorsk, ê is used to represent the reduction of the Old Norse sequence <eð>, similar to the use of ê for the historical sequence <es> in French. It is mostly used to differentiate words which otherwise would be spelled the same, e.g. vêr 'weather' and ver, imperative of 'to be'.^[1]

Persian

Ê is used in the

Portuguese

In Portuguese, ê marks a stressed /e/ only in words whose stressed syllable is in an otherwise unpredictable location in the word: "pêssego" (peach). The letter, pronounced /e/, can also contrast with é, pronounced /ɛ/, as in pé (foot).

Tibetan

Ê is used in

Ukrainian

Ê is used in the

Vietnamese

Ê is the 9th letter of the

• Ề ề
• Ể ể
• Ễ ễ
• Ế ế
• Ệ ệ

Welsh

In Welsh, ê represents long stressed e [eː] if the vowel would otherwise be pronounced as short [ɛ]: llên [ɬeːn] "literature", as opposed to llen [ɬɛn] "curtain", or gêm [ɡeːm] "game", as opposed to gem [ɡɛm] "gem, jewel". That is useful for borrowed words with a final stress like apêl [apˈeːl] "appeal".

Other

In Popido, a fictitious dialect of Esperanto made by Manuel Halvelik for use in literature, ê represents /ə/. It is only used epenthetically to break consonant clusters, especially before grammatical suffixes.

Character mappings

Unicode encoded 5 pairs of

• Circumflex

References