Ü - wikipedia Ü `` U-umlaut '' redirects here. For the sound change in the Germanic languages, see U-mutation. For the region in Tibet, see Ü ( region ). This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( November 2016 ) Ü ü Ü, or ü, is a character that typically represents a close front rounded vowel ( y ). It is classified as a separate letter in several extended Latin alphabets ( including Azeri, Estonian, Hungarian and Turkish ), but as the letter U with an umlaut / diaeresis in others such as Catalan, French, Galician, German, Occitan and Spanish. Although not a part of their alphabet, it also appears in languages such as Swedish when retained in foreign names and words. Contents 1 U-umlaut 2 Letter Ü 3 U-diaeresis 4 Usage in phonetic alphabets 5 Typography 6 Computing codes 6.1 Keyboarding 7 See also 8 References U-umlaut Johann Martin Schleyer proposed an alternate form for Ü in Volapük but it was rarely used. A glyph, U with umlaut, appears in the German alphabet. It represents the umlauted form of u, which results in the same sound as the ( y ). It can also represent ( ʏ ). The letter is collated together with U, or as UE. In languages that have adopted German names or spellings, such as Swedish, the letter also occurs. It is however not a part of these languages ' alphabets. In Swedish the letter is called tyskt y which means German y. In other languages that do not have the letter as part of the regular alphabet or in limited character sets such as ASCII, U-umlaut is frequently replaced with the two - letter combination `` ue ''. Software for optical character recognition sometimes sees it falsely as ii. Letter Ü The letter Ü is present in the Hungarian, French, Turkish, Uyghur Latin, Estonian, Azeri, Turkmen, Crimean Tatar, Kazakh Latin and Tatar Latin alphabets, where it represents a close front rounded vowel ( y ). It is considered a distinct letter, collated separately, not a simple modification of U or Y, and is distinct from UE. This same letter appears in the Chinese Romanisations pinyin, Wade - Giles, and the German - based Lessing - Othmer, where it represents the same sound ( y ) : 綠 / lü ( green ) or 女 / nü ( female ). Standard Mandarin Chinese pronunciation has both the sounds ( y ) and ( u ). Pinyin only uses `` Ü '' to represent ( y ) after the letters `` L '' or `` N '' to avoid confusion with words such as 路 / lu ( road ) and 怒 / nu ( anger ). Words such as 玉 / yu ( jade ) or 句 / ju ( sentence ) are pronounced with ( y ), but are not spelled with `` Ü ''. Although Wade - Giles and Lessing use Ü in all situations. As the letter `` Ü '' is missing on most keyboards and the letter `` V '' is not present in standard Mandarin pinyin, the letter `` V '' is used on most computer Chinese input methods to enter the letter `` Ü ''. As a result, romanisation of Chinese with the letter `` V '' representing the Ü sound is sometimes found. U-diaeresis Several languages use diaeresis over the letter U to show that the letter is pronounced in its regular way, without dropping out, building diphthongs with neighbours, etc. In Spanish, it is used to distinguish between `` gue '' / `` güe '' ( ɡe ) / ( ɡwe ) and `` gui '' / `` güi '' ( ɡi ) / ( ɡwi ) : nicaragüense ( Nicaraguan ), pingüino ( penguin ). Similarly in Catalan, `` gue ~ güe '' are ( ɡe ) ~ ( ɡwe ), `` gui ~ güi '' are ( ɡi ) ~ ( ɡwi ), `` que ~ qüe '' are ( ke ) ~ ( kwe ) and `` qui ~ qüi '' are ( ki ) ~ ( kwi ), as in aigües, pingüins, qüestió, adeqüi. Also, ü is used to mark that vowel pairs that normally would form a diphthong must be pronounced as separate syllables, examples : Raül, diürn. In French, the diaeresis appears over the `` u '' only very rarely, in some uncommon words, capharnaüm ( - aɔm ) ( ' shambles ' ), Capharnaüm / Capernaüm ( - aɔm ) or Emmaüs ( - ays ). After the 1990 spelling reforms, it is applied to a few more words, like aigüe ( formerly aiguë ), ambigüe ( formerly ambiguë ) and argüer ( aʁɡɥe ) ( formerly without the diaeresis ). Usage in phonetic alphabets In the Rheinische Dokumenta, a phonetic alphabet for many West Central German, the Low Rhenish, and few related vernacular languages, `` ü '' represents a range from ( y ) to ( ʏ ). Typography Historically the unique letter Ü and U-diaeresis were written as a U with two dots above the letter. U-umlaut was written as a U with a small e written above : this minute e degenerated to two vertical bars in medieval handwritings. In most later handwritings these bars in turn nearly became dots. In modern typography there was insufficient space on typewriters and later computer keyboards to allow for both a U-with - dots ( also representing Ü ) and a U-with - bars. Since they looked near - identical the two glyphs were combined, which was also done in computer character encodings such as ISO 8859 - 1. As a result, there was no way to differentiate between the three different characters. While Unicode theoretically provides a solution, this is almost never used. Computing codes Character Ü ü Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS Encodings decimal hex decimal hex Unicode 220 U + 00DC 252 U + 00FC UTF - 8 195 156 C3 9C 195 188 C3 BC Numeric character reference & # 220 ; & # xDC ; & # 252 ; & # xFC ; Named character reference &Uuml ; &uuml ; EBCDIC family 252 FC 220 DC ISO 8859 - 1 / 3 / 4 / 9 / 10 / 14 / 15 / 16 220 DC 252 FC CP437 154 9A 129 81 Code page 10029 134 86 159 9F Keyboarding The methods available for entering ⟨ Ü ⟩ and ⟨ ü ⟩ from the keyboard depend on the operating system, the keyboard layout, and the application. Microsoft Windows -- some keyboard layouts feature separate keys for ⟨ Ü ⟩ Using the Swiss French keyboard, ⟨ ü ⟩ can be entered by typing ⇧ Shift + È Using the US International layout, ⟨ ü ⟩ can be entered by typing AltGR + Y Microsoft Windows : with the Number Lock on, hold down the Alt key while typing on the numeric keypad the decimal value of the code point from the active DOS / OEM code page without a leading zero, then release the Alt key ; i.e. Alt + 6 + 6 + 6 for ⟨ Ü ⟩ and Alt + 1 + 2 + 9 for ⟨ ü ⟩ Microsoft Windows : with the Number Lock on, hold down the Alt key while typing on the numeric keypad the decimal value of the code point from the active ANSI code page with a leading zero, then release the Alt key ; i.e. Alt + 0 + 2 + 2 + 0 for ⟨ Ü ⟩ and Alt + 0 + 2 + 5 + 2 for ⟨ ü ⟩ Microsoft Word for Windows : type Ctrl + : followed by ⇧ Shift + U for ⟨ Ü ⟩ or Ctrl + : then U for ⟨ ü ⟩ macOS with an English keyboard layout ( Australian, British, or US ) : type ⌥ Option + U followed by ⇧ Shift + U for ⟨ Ü ⟩ or ⌥ Option + U and then U for ⟨ ü ⟩ or by keeping the U key pressed and then typing 2 In GTK - based GUI - Applications, Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + u followed by the Hex - Code and ↵ Enter On systems with a Compose key, Compose, followed by `` and U for ⟨ Ü ⟩, and Compose, '', u for ⟨ ü ⟩ See also Umlaut ( diacritic ) Ӱ ӱ : Cyrillic letter U with diaeresis References Latin script History Spread Romanization Roman numerals Alphabets ( list ) Classical Latin alphabet ISO basic Latin alphabet phonetic alphabets International Phonetic Alphabet X-SAMPA Spelling alphabet Letters ( list ) Letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Letter U with diacritics Úú Ùù Ŭŭ Ûû Ǔǔ Ůů Üü Ǘǘ Ǜǜ Ǚǚ Ǖǖ Űű Ũũ Ṹṹ Ųų Ų́ų́ Ų̃ų̃ Ūū Ṻṻ Ū̀ū̀ Ū́ū́ Ū̃ū̃ Ủủ Ȕȕ Ȗȗ Ưư Ứứ Ừừ Ữữ Ửử Ựự Ụụ Ṳṳ Ṷṷ Ṵṵ Ʉʉ ᶙ ꭒ Letters using umlaut or diaeresis sign ( ◌ ̈, ◌ ̤ ) Ää Ëë Ḧḧ Ï ï N̈n̈ Öö T̈ẗ Üü Ṳṳ Ẅẅ Ẍẍ Ÿÿ Multigraphs Digraphs ch cz dž dz gh ij ll ly nh ny sh sz th Trigraphs dzs eau Tetragraphs ough Pentagraphs tzsch Keyboard layouts ( list ) QWERTY QWERTZ AZERTY Dvorak Colemak Standards ISO / IEC 646 Unicode Western Latin character sets Lists precomposed Latin characters in Unicode letters used in mathematics Diacritics Palaeography Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title= Ü&oldid = 841910109 '' Categories : Specific letter - diacritic combinations Uncommon Latin letters Hidden categories : Articles lacking sources from November 2016 All articles lacking sources Wikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2018 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Alemannisch Azərbaycanca Boarisch Català Чӑвашла Čeština Dansk Deutsch Eesti Español Esperanto فارسی Français 한국어 Italiano ქართული Коми Latina Magyar Nāhuatl Nederlands 日本 語 Nordfriisk Norsk Polski Português Runa Simi Русский Simple English Slovenčina Slovenščina Sranantongo Suomi Svenska Tagalog Татарча / tatarça Türkçe Українська Tiếng Việt Volapük 中文 33 more Edit links This page was last edited on 18 May 2018, at 21 : 50. 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Question: u with two dots on top microsoft word
Answer: type Ctrl+: followed by ⇧ Shift+U for ⟨Ü⟩ or Ctrl+: then U for ⟨ü⟩