Ye with breve

Not to be confused with the Latin letter Ĕ.

Ye with breve (Ӗ ӗ; italics: Ӗ ӗ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script. In Unicode, this letter is called "Ie with breve".^[1]

Ye with breve
Usage
Writing system	Cyrillic
Type	Alphabetic
Sound values	[ɘ], [ə]
History
Transliterations	Ë ë
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ye with breve is used only in the Chuvash language and Albanian language + Cyrillic (Shqip) to represent the close-mid central unrounded vowel /ɘ/, and mid central vowel /ə/.^[2]

Computing codes

Character information

Preview	Ӗ		ӗ
Unicode name	CYRILLIC CAPITAL LETTER IE WITH BREVE		CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IE WITH BREVE
Encodings	decimal	hex	dec	hex
Unicode	1238	U+04D6	1239	U+04D7
UTF-8	211 150	D3 96	211 151	D3 97
Numeric character reference	Ӗ	Ӗ	ӗ	ӗ

See also

• Е е : Cyrillic Ye