- U
U is the twenty-first letter in the modern
Latin alphabet . Its name in 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. [ [http://www.econ.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/kens/kens.htm The Kensington Runestone - sk(l)ar] ]Codes for computing
Letter
NATO=Uniform
Morse=··–
Character=U
Braille=⠥InUnicode the capital U is codepoint U+0055 and the lowercase u is U+0075.The
ASCII code for capital U is 85 and for lowercase u is 117; or in binary 01010101 and 01110101, correspondingly.The
EBCDIC code for capital U is 228 and for lowercase u is 164.The
numeric character reference s inHTML andXML are "U" and "u" for upper and lower case respectively.ee also
*
V
*W
*Ŭ
*Unicode|Ʉ
*Ů
*µ
*У, у - U (Cyrillic)
*Υ, υ - Upsilon (Greek)References
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