Occurrence
In the following transcriptions, an unrounded vowel is represented by the "less-rounded" diacritic, and a back rounded vowel is represented by the "retracted" diacritic :
| Language | Word | IPA | Meaning | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | كتب | 'books' | See Arabic phonology | ||
| Cabécar | Köpö´ | 'sleep' | |||
| Chinese | Cantonese | 紅 hung4 | 'red' | See Cantonese phonology | |
| Mandarin | 紅 hóng | May be only slightly rounded. See Mandarin phonology | |||
| Shanghainese |
花 hau | 'flower' | |||
| Dutch | Some speakers |
door | 'through' | Retracted. Allophone of /oː/ before /r/ for some speakers, may be instead. See Dutch phonology | |
| Dutch Low Saxon |
Some speakers | doar | |||
| Tweants | bloom | 'flower' | Retracted. Pronounced in other dialects. | ||
| English | Most dialects | hook | 'hook' | May be only slightly rounded. See English phonology | |
| Australian | pool | 'pool' | Allophone of /ʉː/ before /l/, used in some regions. See Australian English phonology | ||
| Irish | plus | 'plus' | Present in dialects without the foot-strut split. | ||
| Northern English | |||||
| Faroese | hvalur | 'whale' | |||
| French | Quebec | foule | 'crowd' | Allophone of /u/ in closed syllables. See Quebec French phonology | |
| German | Standard | Schutz | 'protection' | See German phonology | |
| Korean | 어른 eoreun | 'seniors' | Typically transcribed as ⟨ɯ⟩. See Korean phonology | ||
| Mongolian | ус | 'water' | |||
| Portuguese | European | pegar | 'to hold' | Unstressed vowel. Most often transcribed as /ɨ/. See Portuguese phonology | |
| Brazilian | bonito | 'handsome', 'beautiful' (m.) | Unstressed vowel ⟨o⟩ in some dialects. Corresponds to in Brazil and /u/ in other national variants. See Portuguese phonology | ||
| Russian | сухой | 'dry' | Unstressed allophone of /u/. See Russian phonology | ||
| Spanish | Eastern Andalusian | tus | 'yours' (pl.) | Retracted. Corresponds to in other dialects, but in these dialects they're distinct. See Spanish phonology | |
| Murcian | |||||
| Swedish | Central Standard | ort | 'locality' | Retracted and exolabial (compressed). See Swedish phonology | |
| Vietnamese | thu | 'autumn' | See Vietnamese phonology | ||
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