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U is the twenty-first letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Its name in English language|English is spelled '''u''' ().["U" ''Oxford English Dictionary,'' 2nd edition (1989); ''Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1993)]
History
During the mid-to-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.[The Kensington Runestone - sk(l)ar]
Codes for computing
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 references in HTML and XML are "U" and "u" for upper and lower case respectively.
See also
- V
- W
- Ŭ
*
- Ů
- µ
- U (Cyrillic)|У, у - U (Cyrillic)
- Upsilon|Υ, υ - Upsilon (Greek)
References
Category:Vowel letters
Category:Latin letters
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