Ú
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Ú or ú (U with acute) is a Latin letter used in the the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Irish, Occitan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".
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[edit] Czech
Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the Czech alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound, and can only appear in the middle of a word.
[edit] Faroese
Ú/ú is the 24th letter of the Faroese alphabet, and may represent the following sounds:
- Short [ʏ] in such words as krúss [kɹʏsː] ("mug", "coffee cup")
- Short [ɪ] before /gv/ in such words as kúgv [kɪgv] ("cow"), but also in brúdleyp [bɹɪdlɛip] ("bridal")
- Long [ʉu] diphthong in úti [ʉuːtɪ] ("out"), hús [hʉuːs] ("house"), jú [jʉuː] ("but"),
[edit] Hungarian
Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound.
[edit] Icelandic
Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a /oṷ/ sound.
[edit] Pinyin
In Pinyin (Mandarin Chinese transliterated to Latin), Ú/ú represents a "U" vowel sound of the second (rising) tone.
[edit] Slovak
Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the Slovak alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound.
[edit] Encodings
Computer systems may represent Ú/ú in the following ways:
| Literal | Unicode | HTML entity | UTF-8 | ||
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| Hex | Decimal | Named | |||
| Ú | U+00DA | Ú | Ð | Ú | \xC3\xBA |
| ú | U+00FA | ú | ð | ú | \xC3\x9A |
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| Aa | Bb | Cc | Dd | Ee | Ff | Gg | Hh | Ii | Jj | Kk | Ll | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Vv | Ww | Xx | Yy | Zz | |
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Letter U with diacritics
Letters using acute accent
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