Tilde

Tilde in Unicode

Characters with Tilde

~

˜

​ ◌̃

Ã

ã

Ẫ

ẫ

Ẵ

ẵ

Ẽ

ẽ

Ễ

ễ

U+007E

U+02DC

U+0303

​ U+00C3

U+00E3

​ U+1EAA

U+1EAB

U+1EB4

U+1EB5

U+1EBC

U+1EBD

U+1EC4

U+1EC5

Tilde

Small Tilde

Combining Tilde

Latin Capital Letter A With Tilde

Latin Small Letter A With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter A With Circumflex And Tilde

Latin Small Letter A With Circumflex And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter A With Breve And Tilde

Latin Small Letter A With Breve And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter E With Tilde

Latin Small Letter E With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter E With Circumflex And Tilde

Latin Small Letter E With Circumflex And Tilde

Note: May be confused with swung dash, ⁓ (U+2053).

Ĩ

ĩ

Ñ

ñ

Õ

õ

Ȭ

ȭ

Ṍ

ṍ

Ṏ

ṏ

Ỗ

U+0128

U+0129

​ U+00D1

U+00F1

U+00D5

U+00F5

U+022C

U+022D

U+1E4C

U+1E4D

U+1E4E

U+1E4F

U+1ED6

Latin Capital Letter I With Tilde

Latin Small Letter I With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter N With Tilde

Latin Small Letter N With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde

Latin Small Letter O With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Macron

Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Macron

Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Acute

Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Acute

Latin Capital Letter O With Tilde And Diaeresis

Latin Small Letter O With Tilde And Diaeresis

Latin Capital Letter O With Circumflex And Tilde

ỗ

Ỡ

ỡ

Ũ

ũ

Ṹ

ṹ

Ữ

ữ

Ṽ

ṽ

Ỹ

ỹ

U+1ED7

U+1EE0

U+1EE1

U+0168

U+0169

U+1E78

U+1E79

U+1EEE

U+1EEF

U+1E7C

U+1E7D

U+1EF8

U+1EF9

Latin Small Letter O With Circumflex And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter O With Horn And Tilde

Latin Small Letter O With Horn And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter U With Tilde

Latin Small Letter U With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter U With Tilde And Acute

Latin Small Letter U With Tilde And Acute

Latin Capital Letter U With Horn And Tilde

Latin Small Letter U With Horn And Tilde

Latin Capital Letter V With Tilde

Latin Small Letter V With Tilde

Latin Capital Letter Y With Tilde

Latin Small Letter Y With Tilde

Tilde in Natlangs

Uses of Tilde

Use	Language	Letters	Notes
Glottalized vowel	Vietnamese	Ãã /aˀː˧˥/, Ẵẵ /aˀ˧˥/, Ẫẫ /əˀ˧˥/, Ẽẽ /ɛˀ˧˥/, Ễễ /eˀ˧˥/, Ĩĩ /iˀ˧˥/, Õõ /ɔˀ˧˥/, Ỗỗ /oˀ˧˥/, Ỡỡ /əˀː˧˥/, Ũũ /uˀ˧˥/, Ữữ /ɨˀ˧˥/, Ỹỹ /iˀ˧˥/	The tilde stands for mid rising tone interrupted by a glottal stop. There are many exceptions to the phonemic values of these letters though.
Unrounded vowel	Estonian	Õõ /ɤ/
Other	ISO 15919 romanization of Indic scripts	Ññ	Ññ is used for transcribing the Indic diacritic anusvāra before palatal consonants.
	Livonian	Õõ /ɨ/, Ȭȭ /ɨː/

The tilde is a variable-use diacritic.

Unicode recognizes the following precomposed tilde-appended letters: ã ẽ ĩ ɫ ñ õ ũ ṽ ỹ

The two most common uses originate from the Iberian peninsula:

• Nasalization
  • Portuguese marks its nasal vowels by ã õ (from older aⁿ oⁿ).
  • Inspired by this, the IPA marks nasalization of any segment with a superscript tilde, as in [ã].
  • Several other nat- and conlangs follow suit.
• Palatalization
  • Spanish ñ (from older nn) represents a palatal nasal /ɲ/.
  • This has also been adpoted for Basque.

Other uses include:

• Emphasis
  • Older IPA standards use a middle tilde for velarization or pharyngealization. This still survives in ɫ.
  • Transcription of Quenya uses ñ to represent a velar nasal /ŋ/.
• Derounding: Estonian uses õ to represent a close-mid back unrounded vowel /ɤ/.
• Tone: Falling tone in ancient Greek is sometimes marked with a tilde (the usual diacritic is circumflex).

See Also

• Natlang Uses of Diacritics in the Latin Alphabet
• Tilde Below

References

1. ^  Vietnamese tones at Wikipedia.
2. ^  Vietnamese orthography at Wikipedia.
3. ^  ISO 15919 at Wikipedia.