Û

[1] This letter is used in some standards of Cyrillic transliteration as the letter Ю: It is used in Wade-Giles (one of the romanization systems in Chinese) for apical dental unrounded vowel as in tzû, tz'û, ssû, corresponds to present zi, ci, si in Pinyin respectively.

In French, û does not change the pronunciation of the letter u except in jeune "young", which is pronounced differently from jeûne "a fast".

Û is occasionally used to represent the sound /uː/ in words like fûr, a poetic contraction of furono (they were).

Û is used in Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet in the to represent a long close back rounded vowel /uː/.

In Welsh, û is used to represent a long stressed u [ɨː] or [iː] when, without the circumflex, it would be pronounced as a short [ɨ] or [ɪ]: cytûn [kəˑtɨːn, kəˑtiːn] "agreed", bûm [bɨːm, biːm] "I was" as opposed to bum [bɨm, bɪm] "five" (soft-mutated prenominal form).