The close front rounded vowel, or high front rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. Acoustically it is a close front-central rounded vowel. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this sound is , and the equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is y. Across many languages, it is most commonly represented orthographically as (in German, Turkish and Basque) or , but also as (in French and a few other Romance languages); / (in the romanization of various Asian languages); (in Hungarian for the long duration version; the short version is the found in other European alphabets); or (in Cyrillic-based writing systems such as that for Chechen)