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Ú, ú (u-acute) is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Frisian, Irish, Occitan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Galician, 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 is always 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" three, and "úhel", which means angle. If this sound is elsewhere in the word, letter Ů is used instead.
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.
Kazakh
It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of its Latin script, it should represent the near-close front rounded vowel (ʏ) and is used to replace Cyrillic Ү. The replacement is modified to be Ü ü in 2020.
Karakalpak
Ú/ú is the 26th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet and represents near-close front rounded vowel.
Slovak
Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the Slovak alphabet and represents a /uː/ sound.
Portuguese/Spanish
In Portuguese and Spanish, the "ú" is not a letter but the letter "u" with an accent. It is used to denote an "u" syllable with unusual stress.
Italian
Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries.
Character encoding
| Preview | Ú | ú | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE | LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE | ||
| Encodings | decimal | hex | dec | hex |
| Unicode | 218 | U+00DA | 250 | U+00FA |
| UTF-8 | 195 154 | C3 9A | 195 186 | C3 BA |
| Numeric character reference | Ú |
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| Named character reference | Ú | ú | ||
| EBCDIC family | 254 | FE | 222 | DE |
| ISO 8859-1/2/3/4/9/10/14/15/16 | 218 | DA | 250 | FA |