Editing Ŭ (section)

{{short description|Latin letter U with breve}}
{{Infobox grapheme
| name = U with breve
| script = [[Latin script|Latin]]
| language = [[English language]], [[Belarusian language]], [[Esperanto language]], [[Jarai language]]
| letter = Ŭ ŭ
| image = Latin letter U with breve.svg
| imageclass = skin-invert-image
| equivalents = {{flex list
|[[Short U (Cyrillic)|Ў]]
|[[Short I|Й]]
|[[Malayalam script#Half-u|◌ു&#3405;]]
|[[Malayalam script#Half-u|&#3405;]]
|[[Kashmiri language|ॖ]]
|[[Hard sign|Ъ]]
|[[Korean Language|으]]
}}
| variations = [[Sütterlin|U]] [[Ü]] [[W]]
| phonemes = {{flex list
|<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Close back rounded vowel|u̯]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
|<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Voiced labiodental fricative|v]]<nowiki>]</nowiki>
|[aŭ]
|[eŭ]
|[oŭ]
|[ua]
|[uo]
|[meu]
|{{IPAblink|i}}
|{{IPAblink|w}}
|{{IPAblink|j}}
|{{IPAblink|ʊ}}
|{{IPAblink|ʌ}}
}}
| fam1 = <hiero>G43</hiero><hiero>T3</hiero>
| fam2 = [[Image:Proto-semiticW-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
| fam3 = [[File:PhoenicianW-01.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px]]
| fam4 = [[Image:Phoenician waw.svg|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
| fam5 = [[Image:Early Aramaic character - vav.png|class=skin-invert-image|20px|Waw]]
| fam6 = {{script|Grek|[[Upsilon|Υ υ]]}}
| fam7 = [[𐌖|V v]]
| fam8 = [[U|U u]]
| type = alphabet
| typedesc = ic
}}
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'''Ŭ''' or '''ŭ''' is a letter in the [[Belarusian Latin alphabet]] used since 1840/1845, based on ''[[u]]''. It is also used in the [[Esperanto orthography|Esperanto alphabet]], publicly presented in 1887, and formerly in the [[Romanian alphabet]]. The accent mark ([[diacritic]]) is known as a [[breve]].

This letter should not be confused with [[Ǔ|u-caron]], which is used to indicate u in the third tone of [[Chinese language]] [[pinyin]]; compare {{serif|Ǔ ǔ}} (caron) with {{serif|Ŭ ŭ}} (breve).

It resembles an italic form of a [[Cyrillic alphabet|Cyrillic]] [[Short I]] (''{{serif|Й й}}'').