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U (Letter)

U
Latin U.svg
Spellings
Capital U
Bas-de-casse u
Use
Alphabets Latin
Order 21 th
Phonemes main / U / , / y / , / / , / / ...

The U is the 21st and the 5th letter vowel of the Latin alphabet today. Originally in Latin , it did not exist and was represented by V.

Summary

Origin

Proto-semiticW-01.png PhoenicianW-01.png Upsilon uc lc.svg EtruscanV-01.png RomanV-01.png RomanU-01.png
W Proto-Semitic waw Phoenician upsilon Greek V Etruscan V Roman U Roman
Likely evolution of the grapheme

Linguistics

Coding

Computer

Radio

Audio file
U Morse

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Other

Signaling Sign language Writing
Braille
Flag Semaphore French Quebec
ICS Uniform.svg Semaphore Uniform.svg RSA LettreU.jpg LSQ u.jpg Braille U.svg

See also

Latin alphabet
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Additional letters d ( ) /
With diacritical superscript: N

hook or crook: ( ) H ( )

registered: DJ ( ) pm T Z
Digraphs C. Dx Gb Kp LI Mb Mp Nd Ng Nh Nk Ns Nt Ny Nz Or Sh Th
Trigrams C'h Ngb NKP Sch Tsh
Obsolete letters s
Variants of the letter U
Superscript diacritic (acute accent) (caret) (grave accent) U (short) (short inverted) U (horned) U (hook Chief) (double acute accent) ( double grave accent) (hatchek) (macron) U (round head) (tilde) (umlaut)
Diacritical registered (crossed out)
Diacritical subscribed U (caret subscribed) (retroflex hook) (ogonek) U (DOT) U (tilde subscribed) U (diaeresis)
Combinations U (horned and acute accent) U (horned grave accent) U (horned head and hook) U (horned and DOT) U (horned tilde) U (macron and diaeresis) U (tilde and acute accent) (acute accent and umlaut) (grave accent and umlaut) (umlaut and hatchek) (umlaut and macron)
Ligatures (EU)

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