U

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
Basic Latin	U+0055

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Letter 1.1.1 See also 1.2 Symbol 1.3 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Letter 2.2.1 Derived terms 2.3 Noun 2.4 Abbreviation 2.5 Adjective 2.5.1 Antonyms 2.5.2 Quotations 2.6 Proper noun 2.6.1 Synonyms 2.6.2 External links 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Pronoun 4.2.1 Usage notes 4.3 Letter 4.3.1 See also 5 Italian 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Noun 6 Latin 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Letter 7 Romanian 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Letter 8 Slovene 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Letter 9 Spanish 9.1 Letter

[edit] Translingual

Wikipedia

[edit] Letter

U upper case (lower case u)

1. The twenty-first letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

[edit] See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter U):  Úú  Ùù  Ŭŭ  Ûû  Ǔǔ  Ůů  Üü  Ǘǘ  Ǜǜ  Ǚǚ  Ǖǖ  Űű  Ũũ  Ṹṹ  Ųų  Ūū  Ṻṻ  Ủủ  Ȕȕ  Ȗȗ  Ưư  Ứứ  Ừừ  Ữữ  Ửử  Ựự  Ụụ  Ṳṳ  Ṷṷ  Ṵṵ  Ʉʉ  ᵾ  ᶙ  ᴜ  Ｕｕ

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U

1. (chemistry) Symbol for uranium.
2. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for uracil

[edit] See also

Other representations of U:

NATO phonetic: Uniform Morse code: ··– Braille: ⠥ ASL Manual: U

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of U, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /juː/, SAMPA: /ju:/

  Rhymes: -uː

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U (uppercase, lowercase u)

1. The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, preceded by T and followed by V.

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• U-turn

[edit] Noun

U (plural U's)

1. The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet.

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U

1. (British film certificate) Universal - suitable for all ages
2. Under
3. University
4. Up, Upper

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U

1. (chiefly British) Characteristic of the upper classes, particularly in use of language.

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• non-U

[edit] Quotations

• [1956], Alan S.C. Ross, “U and non-U,” in Brewer’s Anthology of England and the English, David Milsted [1]

  To TAKE a bath is non-U against U to HAVE one’s bath.

• 1956, Nancy Mitford, Noblesse Oblige: an Inquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy

  In a treatise that still causes ripples in English society, Mitford defined various terms as either U (upper class) or non-U.

• 1992, Stephan Gramley, Survey of Modern English [2]

  Other, perhaps more contentious generalizations, which nevertheless contain a certain amount of truth, are that afternoon tea is U, starts at four and typically consists of tea, thin sandwiches and cakes.

• 1992, Linda Rosenkrantz, Beyond Charles and Diana [3]

[edit] Proper noun

Singular U

Plural -

U

1. A language belonging to the Austro-Asiatic language family which is spoken in China.

[edit] Synonyms

• P'uman

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue entry for U, uuu

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe U)

1. The letter U

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /y/

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U (personal & reflexive pronoun, capitalized form of u)

1. Second-person singular & plural, objective & subjective: you (polite).

[edit] Usage notes

See usage notes at u.

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U (capital, lowercase u)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: T
• Next letter: V

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /u/, SAMPA: /u/

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia ^it

U m. and f. inv.

1. The nineteenth letter of the Italian alphabet
2. The twenty-first letter of the Latin alphabet

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Etymology

In Latin, the letter U is a modern typographical convention for the vowel form of V. The letter V in ancient times denoted either a vowel or a consonant, see V for more information.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Classical: IPA: short /u/, long /u:/

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U

1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /u/

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U (capital, lowercase u)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /u/. Preceded by Ţ and followed by V.

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[edit] Slovene

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[edit] Letter

U (capital, lowercase u)

1. The 22nd letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by T and followed by V.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

U (upper case, lower case u)

1. The 24th letter of the Spanish alphabet.