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ū

ū symbol: a dictionary transcription for the USE vowel; also an orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the word "tune".

Symbol

ū

  1. A dictionary transcription for the USE vowel; also an orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the word "tune".
  2. A dictionary transcription for the GOOSE vowel
    Synonyms:
    ü, o͞o

Synonyms of ū

Questions about ū

What does ū mean?
Ū means a dictionary transcription for the USE vowel; also an orthographic ⟨u⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as having that value, as in the word "tune".
What part of speech is ū?
Ū is a symbol.

Words near ū in the dictionary

  1. šâh
  2. šâhs
  3. šāh
  4. šāhs
  5. ũ
  6. ū
  7. ŭ
  8. żabińskiite
  9. Żary
  10. Żmigród
  11. Żnin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ū (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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