Ye with Circumflex (Е̂ е̂; italics: ''Е̂ е̂'') is a letter in the

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, which represents the Cyrillic letter Ye (Е е) with a

circumflex accent The circumflex () is a diacritic in the Latin and Greek scripts that is also used in the written forms of many languages and in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from la, circumflexus "bent around"a ...

. This letter has the exact same look as the Latin letter E with Circumflex (Ê, ê).

Usage

M. O. Maksymovych proposed new letters for usage in the

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * Som ...

Alphabet, based on the

etymological Etymology () The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmɒlədʒi/ the study of the class in words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time". is the study of the history of the form of words an ...

principles of spelling to preserve the old writing of Ukrainian. Of the letters proposed Е̂ was one of them.

Computing codes

Being a relatively recent letter, not present in any legacy 8-bit Cyrillic encoding, the letter Е̂ is not represented directly by a

precomposed character A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can also be defined as a sequence of one or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a diacr ...

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either; it has to be

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as Е+ ◌̂ (U+0302).

Related letters and other similar characters

* Ё ё : Cyrillic letter Yo * Є є : Cyrillic letter Ukrainian Ye * Ԑ ԑ : Cyrillic letter Reversed Ze * Э э : Cyrillic letter E * E e : Latin letter E * È è : Latin letter È * Ѐ è : Cyrillic letter Ye with Grave

References

{{Reflist Cyrillic letters Letters with circumflex Cyrillic letters with diacritics