Ý
See also: Appendix:Variations of "y"
 
 
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Faroese
    
    Letter
    
Ý (lower case ý)
Icelandic
    
    Letter
    
Ý (lower case ý)
Vietnamese
    
    Etymology
    
Sino-Vietnamese word from 意. As for the country name, contracted from Mandarin 意大利 (Yìdàlì, Ý Đại Lợi), from a transcription from a European language.
Pronunciation
    
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔi˧˦]
 - (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɪj˨˩˦]
 - (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [ʔɪj˦˥]
 - Homophones: í, ý
 
Proper noun
    
- a female given name from Chinese
 - (colloquial) Italy (a country in Southern Europe)
 - (only in compounds) Italo-; Italy
 
Synonyms
    
- Cộng hoà I-ta-li-a (“Italian Republic”)
 - I-ta-li-a
 - Ý Đại Lợi
 
Welsh
    
    Pronunciation
    
- (phoneme): (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞/
 - (phoneme): (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈɪ/
 
Letter
    
Ý (lower case ý)
- The letter Y, marked for one of its short pronunciations, (/ɨ̞/ or /ɪ/), when in a stressed final syllable of a polysyllabic word.
 
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