Re: Ê in Pinyin?

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:22:34 +0100, Jean-François Colson
<fa597525@...> wrote:
> On
> http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?lang=zh_r+Chinese&script=romanization
> I read that the letter E with circumflex is used in Pinyin.
> Is that a mistake?
> If that's true, what's its use?
I believe it's used for the "e" sound in "ye" (as opposed to the "e"
sound in "ke, le, ne").

In Zhuyin Fuhao ("Bopomofo"), those two sounds have separate letters
(and "ye" is written "i" + "ê", while e.g. "ke" is written "k" + "e"),
and I believe that "ê" is used as the name of that letter, though I
think it occurs only in the syllables "ye" and "yue" and not by itself
(whereas "e" does occur on its own).

Cheers,
--
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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