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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, 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 letter is in the middle of 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.
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 abnormal 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 |