U
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Translingual
Etymology
From the Etruscan letter 𐌖 (u, “u”), from the Ancient Greek letter Υ (U, “ypsilon”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤅 (w, “waw”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓏲. Doublet of Y, V, and F.
Letter
U (lower case u)
- The twenty-first letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.
See also
Symbol
U
- (chemistry) Chemical symbol for uranium.
- (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for uracil
- (physics) voltage
- (mathematics, statistics) uniform distribution
- (algebra) unitary group
- (linguistics) A wildcard for a rounded vowel or a back vowel
- synonyms: O
- rack unit, the unit of length defined as 1.75 inches
Gallery
- Letter styles
- Uppercase and lowercase versions of U, in normal and italic type
- Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur
See also
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Other representations of U:
English
Afar
Afrikaans
Angami
Azerbaijani
Basque
Catalan
Central Franconian
Central Mazahua
Chinese
Dutch
Esperanto
Finnish
French
German
Hawaiian
Hungarian
Icelandic
Ido
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Kankanaey
Kashubian
Latin
Latvian
Malay
Maltese
Nupe
Polish
Portuguese
Romani
Romanian
Saanich
Scottish Gaelic
Silesian
Skolt Sami
Slovene
Somali
Spanish
Swedish
Tagalog
Turkish
Vietnamese
Welsh
Yoruba
Zulu
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