Ê

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Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter in the Kurdish and Vietnamese languages. This letter also appears in Afrikaans, French, Portuguese, Welsh language, and Albanian dialects as a variant of letter “e”.

Contents 1 Usage in various languages 1.1 Kurdish 1.2 Vietnamese 1.3 Chinese 1.4 Ukrainian 2 Character mappings 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] Usage in various languages

[edit] Kurdish

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

[edit] 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.

• Ề ề
• Ể ể
• Ễ ễ
• Ế ế
• Ệ ệ

[edit] Chinese

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

[edit] Ukrainian

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

[edit] 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	CA
Minuscule ê	U+00EA	EA

[edit] See also

• Circumflex

[edit] External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Kurdish language
  • Vietnamese language

The Basic modern Latin alphabet
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