U 31808 225654350 2008-07-14T19:22:54Z Avnjay 4433881 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/82.5.241.98|82.5.241.98]] to last version by Tj9991 (using [[WP:HG|Huggle]]) {{Otherusesof|U}} {{wiktionarypar2|U|u}} {{Latin alphabet navbox|uc=U|lc=u}} '''U''' is the twenty-first letter in the modern [[Latin alphabet]]. Its name in [[English language|English]] is spelled '''u''' ({{pronEng|juː}}). ==History== During the late Middle Ages, two forms of ''v'' or ''u'' developed, which were both used for modern ''u'' and ''v''. The pointed form ''v'' was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form ''u'' was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas ''valour'' and ''excuse'' appeared as in modern printing, ''have'' and ''upon'' were printed ''haue'' and ''vpon''. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the ''v'' form was used to represent the consonant, and ''u'' the vowel sound, giving the contemporary letter ''u''. Capital U appeared at this time; previously, ''V'' was used in all cases. Initially, once the letters ''u'' and ''v'' were established as separate letters, ''v'' preceded ''u'' in the [[alphabet]]; in modern times, this order has been reversed. The letter ''u'' was introduced into the Latin alphabet by [[Petrus Ramus]] in the 16th century.<ref>[http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm The Kensington Runestone - sk(l)ar]</ref> ==Codes for computing== {{Letter |NATO=Uniform |Morse=··– |Character=U |Braille=⠥ }} In [[Unicode]] the [[majuscule|capital]] U is codepoint U+0055 and the [[Lower case|lowercase]] u is U+0075. The [[ASCII]] code for capital U is 85 and for lowercase u is 117; or in [[Binary numeral system|binary]] 01010101 and 01110101, correspondingly. The [[EBCDIC]] code for capital U is 228 and for lowercase u is 164. The [[numeric character reference]]s in [[HTML]] and [[XML]] are "<tt>&amp;#85;</tt>" and "<tt>&amp;#117;</tt>" for upper and lower case respectively. ==See also== {{Commons|U}} *[[V]] *[[W]] *[[Ŭ]] *{{Unicode|[[Ʉ]]}} *[[Ů]] *[[µ]] *[[U (Cyrillic)|У, у - U (Cyrillic)]] *[[Upsilon|Υ, υ - Upsilon (Greek)]] {{Latin alphabet}} ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Vowel letters]] [[Category:Latin letters]] [[af:U]] [[als:U]] [[ar:U]] [[arc:U]] [[ast:U]] [[az:U]] [[bs:U]] [[br:U (lizherenn)]] [[ca:U]] [[cs:U]] [[co:U]] [[cy:U]] [[da:U]] [[de:U]] [[el:U]] [[es:U]] [[eo:U]] [[eu:U]] [[fa:U]] [[fr:U (lettre)]] [[fur:U]] [[gan:U]] [[gd:U]] [[gl:U]] [[ko:U]] [[hr:U]] [[ilo:U]] [[is:U]] [[it:U]] [[he:U]] [[ka:U]] [[kw:U]] [[sw:U]] [[ht:U]] [[la:U]] [[lv:U]] [[lt:U]] [[hu:U]] [[mzn:U]] [[nah:U]] [[nl:U (letter)]] [[ja:U]] [[no:U]] [[nn:U]] [[nrm:U]] [[uz:U (harf)]] [[pl:U]] [[pt:U]] [[ro:U]] [[qu:U]] [[ru:U (латиница)]] [[se:U]] [[scn:U]] [[simple:U]] [[sk:U]] [[sl:U]] [[sr:U (слово латинице)]] [[fi:U]] [[sv:U]] [[tl:U]] [[th:U]] [[vi:U (mẫu tự)]] [[tr:U]] [[uk:U (латиниця)]] [[vo:U]] [[yo:U]] [[zh-yue:U]] [[bat-smg:U]] [[zh:U]]