Ê, ê (e-circumflex) is a letter in the Kurdish and Vietnamese languages. This letter also appears in Afrikaans, French, Portuguese, Welsh, and Albanian dialects as a variant of letter “e”.
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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'. It represents the sounds /æ/ as in English "apple".
Kurdish
Ê is the 7th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /ɛ/.
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
Chinese
In Chinese pinyin ê represents /ɛ/. It corresponds to ㄝ in zhuyin symbol.
Ukrainian
Ê is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Є.
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 |
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| Majuscule Ê | U+00CA | CA |
| Minuscule ê | U+00EA | EA |
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Letter E with diacritics
Letters using circumflex accent
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