Closed U

Letter of the Latin script From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Closed U is a letter of the Latin script. It has a form of the letter U closed above with a horizontal bar.

Typealphabetic
Language of origin
Sound values/u/
Development
G43
T3
  • Waw
      • Waw
        • Waw
          • Υυ
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Closed U
Closed U
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of origin
Sound values/u/
History
Development
G43
T3
  • Waw
      • Waw
        • Waw
          • Υυ
Time period1878, 1960present
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and  , see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.
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Usage

Gavino Pacheco Zegarra used a closed U in his phonetic alphabet for writing the Quechua family of languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878.[1]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.[2]

Computing codes

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.

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Unicode name CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS
Encodingsdecimalhex
Unicode10828U+2A4C
UTF-8226 169 140E2 A9 8C
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