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The letter U ultimately comes from the Semitic letter Waw by way of the letter Y. See the letter Y for details.
During the late Middle Ages, two forms of "v" developed, which were both used for its ancestor u and modern v. The pointed form "v" was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form "u" was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, "have" and "upon" were printed haue and vpon. The first distinction between the letters "u" and "v" is recorded in a Gothic alphabet from 1386, where "v" preceded "u". By the mid-16th century, the "v" form was used to represent the consonant and "u" the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter "u". Capital "U" was not accepted as a distinct letter until many years later.[3]
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In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, ⟨U⟩ represents the close back rounded vowel /u/. In English it commonly represents /ʌ/ or /ʊ/ ("short U") as in duck, or /ju(ː)/ ("long U") as in mule. Additionally, the letter U is used in internet and other written slang to denote you, by virtue of both being pronounced [juː].
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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 with breve
Ü ü : Latin letter U with diaeresis/umlaut
Ʉ ʉ : Latin letter U with bar
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character
U
u
Unicode name
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
LATIN SMALL LETTER U
character encoding
decimal
hex
decimal
hex
Unicode
85
0055
117
0075
UTF-8
85
55
117
75
Numeric character reference
U
U
u
u
EBCDIC family
228
E4
164
A4
ASCII 1
85
55
117
75
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
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NATO phonetic
Morse code
Uniform
··–
Signal flag
Flag semaphore
Braille
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^ "U" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993)
^ Brown & Kiddle (1870) The institutes of English grammar, p 19.
Ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is U's, Us, u's, or us.
^ Pflughaupt, Laurent (2008). Letter by Letter: An Alphabetical Miscellany. trans. Gregory Bruhn. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 123–124. ISBN 9781568987378. http://books.google.com/books?id=63Qnbt2CMiMC&pg=PA124. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
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