Closed U

Closed U
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of origin
Sound values/u/
History
Development
          • Υυ
Time period1878, 1960–present

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

Usage

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.[2]

Computing codes

This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS 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 ⩌ ⩌
Named character reference ⩌

References

  1. ^ Pacheco Zegarra, Gavino (1878). Ollantaï. Paris: Maisonneuve. pp. cxlvi–cxlvii.
  2. ^ Everson, Michael (2012-04-29). "Proposal to encode "Unifon" and other characters in the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-04-14.