Closed U

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Closed U
Closed U
File:Latin letter closed U (small cap as small form).svg
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of origin
Sound values/u/
History
Development
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  • Waw
    • File:PhoenicianW-01.svg
      • Waw
        • Waw
          • Υυ
Time period1878, 1960–present
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Closed U File:Latin capital letter closed U.svg is a letter of the Latin script. It has a form of the letter U closed above with a horizontal bar.

Usage

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Gavino Pacheco Zegarra used a closed U in his phonetic alphabet for writing the Quechua family of languages in the French translation of Ollantay published in 1878.[1]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.[dubiousdiscuss]

Computing codes

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This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C <reserved-2A4C> resembles a closed U.

Character information
Preview
Unicode name CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 10828 U+2A4C
UTF-8 226 169 140 E2 A9 8C
Numeric character reference &#10828; &#x2A4C;
Named character reference &ccups;

References

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  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).