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Ring Above in Unicode

Precomposed Letters with Ring Above
˚ ◌̊ Å å Ǻ ǻ Ů ů
U+02DA U+030A U+00C5 U+00E5 U+01FA U+01FB U+016E U+016F U+1E98 U+1E99
Ring Above Combining Ring Above Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above Latin Capital Letter A With Ring Above And Acute Latin Small Letter A With Ring Above And Acute Latin Capital Letter U With Ring Above Latin Small Letter U With Ring Above Latin Small Letter W With Ring Above Latin Small Letter Y With Ring Above
Note: May be confused with the Degree Sign, ° (U+00B0); or Masculine Ordinal Indicator, º (U+00BA). Note: May be confused with the Ångström Sign, Å (U+212B).

Natlang Examples

Uses of Ring Above
Use Language Letters Notes
Back version of front vowel. Often also rounded. Chamorro Åå /ɑ/
Danish, Norwegian Åå /ɔ/ From an earlier digraph aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[1]
Swedish Åå /o/ From an earlier digraph aa representing /ɔ/, which in turn came from /aː/.[2]
Long vowel Czech Ůů /uː/ This comes from a diphthong /uo/, where the o was sometimes written as a ring above the u. A sound change then turned /uo/ into /uː/.[3]

See Also

References

  1. Å at Wikipedia.
  2. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named a_ring
  3. Czech orthography, Letter Ů at Wikipedia.