Ú

Ú or ú (U with acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Irish, Occitan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".

Usage in various languages

Czech

Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the Czech alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound. It can only appear as the first letter of the word, except in compound words, such as "trojúhelník" - triangle, which is composed of two words - "troj" which is derived from tři meaning three and "úhel" which means angle.

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 /ɡv/ in such words as kúgv [kɪɡv] ("cow"), but also in brúdleyp [bɹɪdlɛip] ("bridal")
• Long [ʉu] diphthong in úti [ʉuːtɪ] ("out"), hús [hʉuːs] ("house"), jú [jʉuː] ("but"),

Hungarian

Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the Hungarian alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound.

Icelandic

Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a /u/ sound.

Pinyin

In Pinyin (Mandarin Chinese transliterated to Latin), Ú/ú represents a "U" vowel sound of the second (rising) tone.

Slovak

Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the Slovak alphabet, and represents a /uː/ sound.

Portuguese

In Portuguese, the "ú" isn't considered a letter, but the letter "u" with an accent. It's used to denote an "u" syllable with abnormal stress.

Italian

Ú/ú is used in words like "Menú", "Virtú", and "Goventú".

Encodings

Computer systems may represent Ú/ú in the following ways:

Literature	Unicode	HTML entity			UTF-8
		Hex	Decimal	Named
Ú	U+00DA	Ú	Ú	Ú	\xC3\xBA
ú	U+00FA	ú	ú	ú	\xC3\x9A

See also

• Acute accent

External links

• Omniglot - writing systems & languages of the world
  • Czech language
  • Faroese language
  • Hungarian language
  • Icelandic language
  • Slovak language

The ISO basic Latin alphabet
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
Letter U with diacritics
Úú	Ùù	Ŭŭ	Ûû	Ǔǔ	Ůů	Üü	Ǘǘ	Ǜǜ	Ǚǚ	Ǖǖ	Űű	Ũũ	Ṹṹ	Ųų	Ūū	Ṻṻ	Ủủ	Ȕȕ	Ȗȗ	Ưư	Ứứ	Ừừ	Ữữ	Ửử	Ựự
Ụụ	Ṳṳ	Ṷṷ	Ṵṵ	Ʉʉ	ᵾ	ᶙ
Letters using acute accent ( ◌́ )
Áá	Ǽǽ	Ćć	Éé	Ǵǵ	Í í	Ḱḱ	Ĺĺ	Ḿḿ	Ńń	Óó	Ǿǿ	Ṕṕ	Ŕŕ	Śś	Úú	Ẃẃ	Ýý	Źź
Related
History Palaeography Derivations Diacritics Punctuation Numerals Unicode List of letters ISO/IEC 646