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Ü (lowercase ü) is a <a href="/facts/Latin_script/7EWeJjUV">Latin script</a> character composed of the letter <a href="/facts/U/41AF4mKp">U</a> and the <a href="/facts/Diaeresis_(diacritic)/FsYeoSzC">diaeresis</a> diacritical mark. In some alphabets such as those of a number of <a href="/facts/Romance_language/TMK4KHI3">Romance languages</a> or <a href="/facts/Guarani_alphabet/Szdbtolk">Guarani</a> it denotes an instance of regular U to be construed in isolation from adjacent characters with which it would usually form a larger unit; other alphabets like the <a href="/facts/Azerbaijani_alphabet/dNBYVrAd">Azerbaijani</a>, <a href="/facts/Estonian_alphabet/gQysa5Qj">Estonian</a>, <a href="/facts/German_alphabet/wRfTdcfG">German</a>, <a href="/facts/Hungarian_alphabet/oItxF0Ug">Hungarian</a> and <a href="/facts/Turkish_alphabet/Skpn0bkK">Turkish</a> ones treat it as a letter in its own right. In those cases it typically represents a <a href="/facts/Close_front_rounded_vowel/fAyNrUxL">close front rounded vowel</a> [<a href="/facts/Close_front_rounded_vowel/fAyNrUxL">y</a>] ⓘ.
Although not a part of their alphabet, Ü also appears in languages such as <a href="/facts/Finnish_language/lBuEIgs0">Finnish</a> and <a href="/facts/Swedish_language/1DkSIXkH">Swedish</a> when retained in foreign proper names like München ("<a href="/facts/Munich/Pr6zw2ev">Munich</a>"). A small number of <a href="/facts/Dutch_language/yIB5lbsx">Dutch</a> and <a href="/facts/Afrikaans/jYqEPHmA">Afrikaans</a> words employ the character to mark <a href="/facts/Vowel_hiatus/DInsUYDx">vowel hiatus</a> (e.g. reünie /reːyˈni/ ("reunion"), a loanword marked with diaeresis to suppress the native reading of eu as a digraph pronounced /øː/).

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