Editing Ŭ (section)

==Other uses==
In some philological transcriptions of [[Latin]], "ŭ" denotes a [[vowel length|short]] U — for example, "fŭgō" ({{IPA|[ˈfʊɡoː]}}, ''to chase away''), vs "fūmō" ({{IPA|[ˈfuːmoː]}}, ''to smoke'').

The letter is also commonly used among Slavists to denote the short back closed vowel of [[Proto-Slavic#Vowel notation|Proto-Slavic]].

The [[McCune–Reischauer]] Romanization of [[Korean language|Korean]] uses "ŭ" to signify the [[close back unrounded vowel]] in 으.

Several schemes for [[Pronunciation respelling for English|pronunciation of English words]] have used "ŭ".  For example, [[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language]] has used "ŭ" for {{IPAc-en|ʌ}}, the vowel in the English word "cut".

[[File:Sütterlin-U.png|class=skin-invert-image|thumb|80px|Sütterlin "u"|left]]In [[Kurrent]]schrift, an outdated script used in German handwriting, the lower-case letter "u" is adorned with a breve to distinguish it from the otherwise identical letter "n". The script was used for teaching writing in schools; the last variant, known as [[Sütterlinschrift]], as late as 1941. The ingrained habit of writing "ŭ" for "u" persisted for a long time even as people switched to cursive scripts with easily distinguishable shapes for "u" and "n", occasionally leading to confusion between "ŭ" (meaning "u") and "ü" among later generations not brought up with this tick.