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The circumflex accent marks a long vowel in the orthography or transliteration of several languages. In Afrikaans, the circumflex marks a vowel with a lengthened pronunciation, often arising from compensatory lengthening due to the loss of g from the original Dutch form.
In the Palatuldikan (diacritical system), it is denoted by the pakupyâ or circumflex accent when the final syllable is stressed (e.g. dugô 'blood'), and by the paiwà (grave accent) if unstressed (susì 'key'). Fricatives /s/ s sangá ('branch') When followed by /j/, it is often pronounced [ʃ], particularly by speakers in urban areas. /ʃ/
The most common is the circumflex (which it calls to bach, meaning "little roof", or acen grom "crooked accent", or hirnod "long sign") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel or a semivowel. The rarer grave accent has the opposite effect, shortening vowel sounds that would usually be pronounced ...
u+ff3e ^ fullwidth circumflex accent Look up caret in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caret (from Latin caret 'there is lacking') [ 3 ] is the name used familiarly for the character ^ provided on most QWERTY keyboards by typing ⇧ Shift + 6 .
These combinations are intended to be mnemonic and designed to be easy to remember: the circumflex accent (e.g. â) is similar to the free-standing circumflex (caret) (^), printed above the 6 key; the diaeresis/umlaut (e.g. ö) is visually similar to the double-quote (") above 2 on the UK keyboard; the tilde (~) is printed on the same key as the #.
In distinction to the angled Latin circumflex, the Greek circumflex is printed in the form of either a tilde ( ̃) or an inverted breve ( ̑). It was also known as ὀξύβαρυς oxýbarys "high-low" or "acute-grave", and its original form ( ^ ) was from a combining of the acute and grave diacritics.
In Italian the circumflex accent is an optional accent. While the accent itself has many uses, with the letter "i" it is only used while forming the plural of male nouns ending in -io in order to minimize both ambiguity and the stressing of the wrong syllable: principio /prinˈtʃipjo/ (principle) has the plural principî /prinˈtʃipi/, and principe /ˈprintʃipe/ (prince) has principi ...
Accented letters: â ç è é ê î ô û, rarely ë ï ; ù only in the word où, à only at the ends of a few words (including à).Never á í ì ó ò ú.; Angle quotation marks: « » (though "curly-Q" quotation marks are also used); dialogue traditionally indicated by means of dashes.