U+1D1E, ᴞ
LATIN SMALL LETTER SIDEWAYS DIAERESIZED U

[U+1D1D]
Phonetic Extensions
[U+1D1F]

Translingual

Etymology

The character ü rotated 90° anticlockwise. The Uralic Phonetic Alphabet makes regular use of 180°-rotation to denote a reduced form of a given sound; where this results in homoglyphy, a character is rotated 90° anticlockwise instead (for example, the reduced form of u is denoted by the 90°-rotated , because a 180°-rotated form would be virtually indistinguishable from n). In the case of , although ü rotated 180° would not result in ambiguity, the sideways form is preferred because the resulting character, resembling ⟨  ⟩, may lose its U+0324 COMBINING DIAERESIS BELOW during character decomposition, resulting in a character resembling ⟨ n ⟩.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʏ], [y̆]

Symbol

  1. (in the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet) denotes a reduced form of ü
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