U

U (named u /ˈjuː/, plural ues) is the twinty-first letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet an a vowel in the Inglis alphabet.

U
U
ISO basic Laitin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg
Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn
Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu
Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
U
U
U
Cursive script 'u' and capital 'U' in the U.S. D'Nealian script style

Seembol 'U' is the chemical seembol for uranium.

History

The letter U ultimately comes frae the Semitic letter Waw bi wey o the letter Y. See the letter Y for details.

Durin the late Middlin Ages, twa forms o 'v' developit, which wur baith uised for its auncestor 'u' an modren 'v'. The pyntit fairm 'v' wis written at the beginnin o a wird, while a roondit fairm 'u' wis uised in the middlin or end, regairdless o soond. Sae whauras 'valor' an 'excuse' appeared as in modren printin, 'hae' an 'upon' wur printed 'haue' an 'vpon'. The first distinction atween the letters 'u' an 'v' is recordit in a Gothic alphabet frae 1386, whaur 'v' precedit 'u'. Bi the mid-16t century, the 'v' fairm wis uised tae represent the consonant an 'u' the vowel soond, givin us the modren letter 'u'. Caipital 'U' wis nae acceptit as a distinct letter till mony years later.

Uisage

In maist leids that uise the Latin alphabet, 'U' represents the close back roondit vowel /u/.

In Inglis the letter is pronoonced differently in different wirds. In closed syllables, it commonly represents /ʌ/ ("short U" as in 'duck') or /ʊ/ (as in 'put'). In open syllables, it commonly represents /u(ː)/ (as in 'blue') or /ju(ː)/ ("long U" as in 'mule'). Addeetionally, the letter U is uised in text messagin an internet an ither written slang tae denote 'you', bi virtue o baith bein pronoonced [juː].

In French the letter represents the close front roondit vowel; /u/ is representit bi 'ou'.

U is an aa the mathematics seembol for Union, which is uised mainly for Venn diagrams an geometry.

Relatit letters an ither similar characters

  • N n : Latin letter N (an upside-doun "U u")
  • Υ υ : Greek letter Upsilon
  • У у : Cyrillic letter U
  • V v : Latin letter V
  • W w : Latin letter W
  • Μ μ : Greek letter Mu
  • Ŭ ŭ : Latin letter U wi breve
  • Ü ü : Latin letter U wi diaeresis/umlaut
  • Ʉ ʉ : Latin letter U wit bar

Computin codes

Character U u
Unicode name LATIN CAIPITAL LETTER U     LATIN SMAA LETTER U
Encodins decimal hex decimal hex
Unicode 85 U+0055 117 U+0075
UTF-8 85 55 117 75
Numeric chairacter reference U U u u
EBCDIC faimily 228 E4 164 A4
ASCII 1 85 55 117 75
    1 An aa for encodins based on ASCII, includin the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 an Macintosh faimilies o encodins.

Ither representations

NATO phonetic Morse code
Uniform ··–
U  U  [[File:Sign language {{{fingerspelling}}}.svg|90px]] U 
Seegnal banner Banner semaphore American manual alphabet (ASL fingerspellin) Braille
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References

Freemit airtins

  • U  Media relatit tae U at Wiki Commons
  • U  The dictionar defineetion o U at Wiktionary
  • U  The dictionar defineetion o u at Wiktionary
The ISO basic Laitin alphabet
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz
Letter U with diacritics
Úú Ùù Ŭŭ Ûû Ǔǔ Ůů Üü Ǘǘ Ǜǜ Ǚǚ Ǖǖ Űű Ũũ Ṹṹ Ųų Ūū Ṻṻ Ủủ Ȕȕ Ȗȗ Ưư Ứứ Ừừ Ữữ Ửử Ựự
Ụụ Ṳṳ Ṷṷ Ṵṵ Ʉʉ
Related
  • Derivations
  • Diacritics
  • History
  • ISO/IEC 646
  • Leet o letters
  • Numerals
  • Palaeography
  • Punctuation
  • Unicode

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