Латын әрпінің Ê белгісі және қолданылуы

Latin letter E with circumflex

Ê, ê (e circumflex) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, found in Afrikaans, French, Friulian, Kurdish, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Portuguese, Vietnamese, and Welsh. It is used to transliterate Chinese, Persian, and Ukrainian.

Ê is not considered a separate letter in Afrikaans but a variation of "E". The circumflex changes the pronunciation of "e" to be (or if the succeeding consonant is either a dorsal or a liquid)

In the Pinyin romanization of Standard Mandarin Chinese, ê represents It corresponds to Zhuyin ㄝ. The circumflex occurs only if ê is the only vowel in a syllable: ề (; "eh!"). Without the circumflex, e as the only vowel represents : è (; "hungry"). Elsewhere, is written as a (after i or ü before n) or e (before or after another vowel), with the appropriate tone mark,: xiān (; "first"), xuǎn (; "to choose", noting that ü is written u after x), xué (; "to learn"), xièxie (; "thanks"). In Pe̍h ōe jī, ê is the fifth tone of e: ê (; possessive, adjectival suffix).

Diacritics are not considered to be distinct letters of the French alphabet. In French, ê usually changes the pronunciation of e from /ə/ to /ɛ/. It is used instead of "è" for words that used to be written "es".

Ê represents and .

Ê is used in UNGEGN romanization system for Khmer to represent and , for example Khmêr (ខ្មែរ ) and Dângrêk Mountains (ដងរែក ).

Ê is the 7th letter of the Kurdish Kurmanji alphabet and represents /eː/.

In Nynorsk, ê is used to represent the reduction of the Old Norse sequence <eð>, similar to the use of ê for the historical sequence <es> in French. It is mostly used to differentiate words which otherwise would be spelled the same, e. g. vêr 'weather' and ver, imperative of 'to be'.

Ê is used in the Persian Latin (Rumi) alphabet, equivalent to ع.

In Portuguese, ê marks a stressed only in words whose stressed syllable is in an otherwise unpredictable location in the word: "pêssego" (peach). The letter, pronounced , can also contrast with é, pronounced , as in pé (foot).

Ê is used in Tibetan pinyin to represent , for example Gêrzê County.

Ê is used in the ISO 9:1995 system of Ukrainian transliteration as the letter Є.

In Welsh, ê represents long stressed e if the vowel would otherwise be pronounced as short : llên "literature", as opposed to llen "curtain", or gêm "game", as opposed to gem "gem, jewel". That is useful for borrowed words with a final stress like apêl "appeal".

In Popido, a fictitious dialect of Esperanto made by Manuel Halvelik for use in literature, ê represents It is only used epenthetically to break consonant clusters, especially before grammatical suffixes.

Unicode encoded 5 pairs of precomposed characters (Ề / ề, Ể / ể, Ễ / ễ, Ế / ế, Ệ / ệ) for the five tones of ê in Vietnamese. Two pairs of the five (Ế / ế and Ề / ề) can also be used as the second and fourth tones of ê in Pinyin. The first and third tones of ê in Pinyin have to be represented by combining diacritical marks, like ê̄ (ê&#772;) and ê̌ (ê&#780;).