VOTE!!!! writing 女 in hanyu pinyin?! what should it be?!!!

[geek_frappa]

A dieresis or an umlaut is occasionally used over the vowel u in conjunction with the tonal marks when placed after the initials l and n, which distinguishes between rounded-u and unrounded-u sounds. However, the umlaut-u is not used after the semiconsonant y and after the consonants j, q, and x. This practise is opposed to Wade-Giles, which always uses ü, and Tongyong Pinyin, which always uses yu.

Many fonts or inputs do not support diaeresis (umlaut) for ü, v is used instead by convention. Occasionally, uu (double u) or U (capital u) is used in its place.

what do you think?

[xuechengfeng]

i'd go with nü3

[wushijiao]

I voted for "nv". Why? Because I like pinyin's "nü", because I think it is informative. However, sometimes "nü" is hard to make on a computer. "nv" shows you that it is "n" and then, because "nv" doesn't exist in pinyin, you guess that it is "nü". I don't think this would be as clear with nU or other things.

[roddy]

nU seems daft, why suddenly have to flip into caps. nv, nvv, nu: all seem fine to me. I prefer nv - one less key to press.

Roddy

[berylchan]

"nv", that's what you can find in computer while you using pinyin.

[geek_frappa]

nU seems daft, why suddenly have to flip into caps. nv, nvv, nu: all seem fine to me. I prefer nv - one less key to press.

nU seems daft, but when you look closer, you will see that it is totally asinine.

[trevelyan]

I vote for nv. It reminds me of Latin and Latin is cool.

[chris.]

nv looks like it sounds

[maybedaisy]

in fact,when i was in my element school, the standard pinyin should be nu:3,but you know that there's no such key in keyboard,so the chinese choose nv to instead of "nu:3" .the correct way should be "nu:3"

[smithsgj]

nv looks like it sounds