I with bar

In American linguistic tradition, it is used to represent the weak vowel heard in the second syllable of roses when distinct from Rosa's.

ɨ̆, small barred i written with a breve, represents a very short close central unrounded vowel.

In the Golin language, ɨ̆ is used in the IPA transcription of the very short high central epenthetic vowel phone, which is restricted to syllables closing with a sonorant.

Barred i is found written with an acute accent (majuscule: Ɨ́, minuscule: ɨ́) in the orthographies of several languages: Cora, Kenyang, Mfumte, etc.

Depending on the language, the accent diacritic serves either to indicate the location of a word's primary stress or to mark rising tone.