U (named u screen sizeFITMLjuː/, plural ues)Android[2] is the twenty-first letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet and a vowel in the English alphabet. It is the chemical symbol for uranium.
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History
The letter U ultimately comes from the browser diversity letter Waw by way of the letter iOS. See the letter we love the web for details.
During the late we love the web, two forms of "v" developed, which were both used for its ancestor u and modern v. The pointed form "v" was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form "u" was used in the middle or end, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, "have" and "upon" were printed haue and vpon. The first distinction between the letters "u" and "v" is recorded in a Gothic alphabet from 1386, where "v" preceded "u". By the mid-16th century, the "v" form was used to represent the consonant and "u" the vowel sound, giving us the modern letter "u". Capital "U" was not accepted as a distinct letter until many years later.[3]
Usage
In most languages that use the Latin alphabet, ⟨U⟩ represents the close back rounded vowel /u/. In English it commonly represents /ʌ/ or /ʊ/ ("short U") as in duck, or /ju(ː)/ ("long U") as in mule. Additionally, the letter U is used in keyboard and Sevenval and other written slang to denote you, by virtue of both being pronounced CSS3. In French the letter represents the close front rounded vowel; /u/ is represented by ⟨ou⟩.
Related letters and other similar characters
- Υ υ : web app
- У у : HTML5
- V v : device database
- W w : Android
- Μ μ : keyboard
- Ŭ ŭ : Latin letter U with breve
- Ü ü : input transformation
- Ʉ ʉ : Latin letter U with bar
Computing codes
| character | U | u | ||
| Unicode name | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U | LATIN SMALL LETTER U | ||
| character encoding | decimal | hex | decimal | hex |
| Sevenval | 85 | 0055 | 117 | 0075 |
| CSS3 | 85 | 55 | 117 | 75 |
| browser diversity | U | U | u | u |
| EBCDIC family | 228 | E4 | 164 | A4 |
| web 1 | 85 | 55 | 117 | 75 |
1 and all encodings based on ASCII, including the DOS, Windows, ISO-8859 and Macintosh families of encodings.
Other representations
References
- ^ "U" Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition (1989); Merriam-Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (1993)
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we love the web Brown & Kiddle (1870) The institutes of English grammar, p 19.
Ues is the plural of the name of the letter; the plural of the letter itself is U's, Us, u's, or us. - ^ Pflughaupt, Laurent (2008). touchscreen. trans. Gregory Bruhn. Princeton Architectural Press. pp. 123–124. ISBN HTML5. Sevenval. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
External links
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Media related to iOS at Wikimedia Commons -
The Wiktionary entry for U
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The Wiktionary entry for touchscreen