Ú,ú (u-acute) is aLatin letter used in theCzech,Dobrujan Tatar,Faroese,Hungarian,Icelandic,Karakalpak andSlovak writing systems. This letter also appears inDutch,Frisian,Irish,Occitan,Catalan,Pinyin,Portuguese,Spanish,Italian,Galician, andVietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".[1]
Ú/ú is the 34th letter of theCzech alphabet and represents a/uː/ sound. It is mostly the first letter of the word, as inúhel 'angle'. If this sound is in the middle of the word, the letter⟨ů⟩ is used instead, as inkůň 'horse'. Exceptionally,⟨ú⟩ in the middle is written in compound words, such astrojúhelník triangle, in old words, such asocúnColchicum,Kúsky, and in loanwords, such asBejrút 'Beirut',Rút 'Ruth',múza 'muse',manikúra 'manicure',pedikúra 'pedicure',štrúdl 'strudel'.
Ú/ú is the 28th letter ofDobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ʉ/ as in "sút" [s̶ʉt̶] 'milk'. In the vicinity of semivowel y, which occurs rarely, its articulation shifts to high rounded ATR or soft /y/, close to Turkish pronunciation, as in "súymek" [s̶ym̶ec] 'to love'.
Ú/ú is the 24th letter of theFaroese alphabet, and may represent the following sounds:
Ú/ú is the 36th letter of theHungarian alphabet and represents a/uː/ sound.
Ú/ú is the 25th letter of theIcelandic alphabet, and represents a/uː/ sound.
Ú/ú is the letter of theJavanese Latin alphabet, and represents a/ʊ/ sound.
It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of itsLatin script, it should represent thenear-close front rounded vowel (ʏ) and is used to replace CyrillicҮ. The replacement is modified to beÜ ü in 2020.
Ú/ú is the 26th letter of theKarakalpak alphabet and representsnear-close front rounded vowel.
Ú/ú is the 39th letter of theSlovak alphabet and represents a/uː/ sound.
In Portuguese, Galician, Spanish and Catalan, "ú" is not a distinct letter but a modified letter "u". It is used to denote an "u" with unusual stress.
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. In Italian, Ú/ú is orthographically equivalent to Ù/ù; predominantly the latter is used.
| 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 | Ú | ú | ú |
| 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 |