ᵿ

ᵿ U+1D7F, ᵿ LATIN SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH STROKE ← ᵾ [U+1D7E] Phonetic Extensions ᶀ → [U+1D80]

See also: ᵾ

Translingual

Symbol

ᵿ

1. (NAPA) A near-close central rounded vowel, IPA [ʊ̈] = [ʉ̞].
2. (IPA, unofficial) A reduced variant of the near-close central rounded vowel [ʊ̈] = [ʉ̞].
3. (superscript) [ᵿ]-coloring or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [ᵿ].
4. (lexicography) A symbol used in some English-language dictionaries to denote a phoneme of standard Southern British English and of standand American English that may be realised variously as [ʊ] or [ə] without error.

Usage notes

The IPA provides two letters for reduced vowels: low/open ⟨ɐ⟩ and mid ⟨ə⟩. These are not defined for rounding. For languages such as English, French and Russian that have additional or just different reduced vowels, some sources use the non-IPA letters ⟨ᵿ⟩ and ⟨ᵻ⟩ for high/close rounded and unrounded reduced vowels, or return to the old IPA use of ⟨ɵ⟩ as a rounded mid reduced vowel.

See also

• ᵻ