V

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
Codepoint	U+0056
U ← Basic Latin → W

See also v, ٧, and Appendix:Variations of "v"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Letter

V upper case (lower case v)

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

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 V):  Ṽṽ  Ṿṿ  Ʋʋ  ᶌᶌ  ⱱ  ⱴ  ᴠ  Ｖｖ  Ꜹꜹ  Ꜻꜻ  Ww  Ꝡꝡ

Symbol

V

1. The volt in the International System of Units.
2. (chemistry) Symbol for vanadium.
3. The Roman numeral for 5.
4. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for valine

See also

Other representations of V:

NATO phonetic: Victor Morse code: ···– Braille: ⠧ ASL Manual: V

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

• Letter styles
• 

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

• 

  Uppercase and lowercase V in Fraktur

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /viː/, X-SAMPA: /vi:/

Letter

V uppercase (lowercase v)

1. The twenty-second letter of the English alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; 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

Initialism

V

1. (organic chemistry) The resin identification code for polyvinyl chloride, also PVC

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American Sign Language

Letter

(Stokoe V)

1. The letter V

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Azeri

Letter

V upper case (lower case v)

1. The thirtieth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /veː/

Letter

V (capital, lowercase v)

1. The twenth-second letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: U
• Next letter: W

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Esperanto

Letter

V upper case (lower case v)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called vo and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

Abbreviation

V

1. (text messaging) Abbreviation of vi (“you”).

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Finnish

Letter

V upper case (lower case v)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Finnish alphabet, called vee and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz, Žž, Åå, Ää, Öö

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German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊ
• (letter name) IPA: /faʊ̯/

• Audio

  (file)

• (words of Germanic origin and German place names) IPA: [f]
• (words of Romanic origin) IPA: [v]

Letter

V (upper case, lower case v)

1. The twenty-second letter of the German alphabet.

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German Sign Language

Etymology

Related to the French Sign Language sign for "V".

Production

This one-handed GSL sign is produced as follows:

• Posture the dominant hand in the “V” shape.

Letter

1. the letter V

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Italian

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Pronunciation

• (name of letter) IPA: /vu/, /vi/
• (phoneme) IPA: /v/

Letter

V m and f (invariable, lower case v)

1. The twentieth letter of the Italian alphabet, called vu or vi and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) lettera; 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
• Italian alphabet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Italian alphabet

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Latvian

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Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [v]

Letter

V

V upper case (lower case v)

1. The thirty-first letter of the Latvian alphabet, called vē and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

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Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA: [vi]
• (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [v]
• (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [f]

Letter

V

1. The twenty-second letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) 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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ve/

Letter

V (capital, lowercase v)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /v/. Preceded by U and followed by X.

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Slovene

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Letter

V (capital, lowercase v)

1. The 23rd letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by U and followed by Z.

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Spanish

Letter

V (upper case, lower case v)

1. The 23rd letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

V upper case (lower case v)

1. The twenty-seventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ve and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz