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COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
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Combining Diacritical Marks ◌̃

Translingual

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. (IPA) Falling tone.
  2. (IPA, obsolete) Dipping (falling–rising) tone.
  3. (UPA) Extra long vowel (e.g. â) or consonant (e.g.  ); cf. ◌̄.
  4. (Lithuanian dialectology) Marks a stressed syllable with "broken tone".
  5. (linear algebra) Used to indicate a unit vector.
    Coordinate term: ◌⃗
  6. (statistics) Used to denote an estimator or an estimated value.
  7. (geometry) Used for an angle.

Further reading

English

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French): château, crème brûlée, crêpe, maître d', mêlée, papier-mâché, rôle, tête-à-tête.

Esperanto

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called ĉapelo (hat) in Esperanto, and found on Ĉ/ĉ, Ĝ/ĝ, Ĥ/ĥ, Ĵ/ĵ and Ŝ/ŝ.

French

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent circonflexe (circumflex accent) in French, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.

Hokkien

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. Represents the fifth tone of Taiwanese Hokkien in Pe̍h-ōe-jī.

Japanese

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. (romanization) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called サーカムフレックス (circumflex) in Japanese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.

Usage notes

In a number of romanization systems of Japanese, particularly Kunrei-shiki, the circumflex indicates that a vowel is a long vowel.

Other romanization systems, particularly Hepburn, use the macron (an uppermost horizontal line: ¯) for that purpose.

Ligurian

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acénto circonflèsso (circumflex accent) in Ligurian, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô and Û/û.
    1. Used to denote a stressed or unstressed /aː/, /eː/, /iː/, /uː/, /yː/

See also

Portuguese

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acento circunflexo (circumflex accent) in Portuguese, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê and Ô/ô.

Usage notes

Romanian

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called accent circumflex (circumflex accent) in Romanian, and found on Â/â and Î/î.

Vietnamese

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called dấu mũ (hat mark) in Vietnamese, and found on Â/â, /, /, /, /, /, Ê/ê, /, /, /, /ế, /, Ô/ô, /, /, /, / and /.

Usage notes

In Vietnamese handwriting and signmaking, this diacritical mark often appears curved, similar to an inverted breve.

Welsh

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called acen grom (curved accent) in Welsh, and found on Â/â, Ê/ê, Î/î, Ô/ô, Û/û, Ŵ/ŵ and Ŷ/ŷ.

Yoruba

Diacritical mark

◌̂

  1. (obsolete) A diacritical mark of the Latin script, called àmì ohùn ẹlẹ́yọ̀ọ́rodò (falling-tone mark). Formerly used to indicate falling-tone, now written as ◌́ followed by ◌̀

See also

tone marks