Ú

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Latin letter U with acute

Ú, ú (

Italian, Galician, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".[1]

Usage in various languages

Czech

Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the

Ů
is used instead.

Faroese

Ú/ú is the 24th letter of the

Faroese alphabet
, and may represent the following sounds:

  • Short [ʏ] in such words as krúss [kɹʏsː] ("mug", "coffee cup")
  • Short [ɪ] before /ɡv/ in such words as kúgv [kɪɡv] ("cow"), but also in brúdleyp [bɹɪdlɛip] ("bridal")
  • Long [ʉu] diphthong in úti [ʉuːtɪ] ("out"), hús [hʉuːs] ("house"), [jʉuː] ("but"),

Hungarian

Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents a /uː/ sound.

Icelandic

Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a /u/ sound.

Javanese

Ú/ú is the letter of the Javanese Latin alphabet, and represents a /ʊ/ sound

Kazakh

It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of its

Ү. The replacement is modified to be Ü ü
in 2020.

Karakalpak

Ú/ú is the 26th letter of the

near-close front rounded vowel
.

Slovak

Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the

Slovak alphabet
and represents a /uː/ sound.

Portuguese/Spanish/Catalan

In Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan, the "ú" is not a letter but the letter "u" with an accent. It is used to denote an "u" syllable with unusual stress.

Italian

Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries.

Character encoding

Character information
Preview Ú ú
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
Encodings decimal hex dec hex
Unicode 218 U+00DA 250 U+00FA
UTF-8 195 154 C3 9A 195 186 C3 BA
Numeric character reference Ú Ú ú ú
Named character reference Ú ú
EBCDIC family 254 FE 222 DE
16
218 DA 250 FA

See also

References

  1. ^ "Unicode Character "Ú" (U+00DA)". Compart. Oak Brook, IL: Compart AG. 2021. Retrieved 2024-02-29.
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