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Closed U

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Closed U
Closed U
Usage
Typealphabetic
Language of origin
Sound values/u/
History
Development
G43
T3
  • Waw
      • Waw
        • Waw
          • Υυ
Time period1878, 1960present
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 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] It is also used in the Landsmålsalfabetet.[2]

The Unifon alphabet uses a capital form of closed U.[3]

Computing codes

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This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.

References

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  1. Pacheco Zegarra, Gavino (1878). Ollantaï. Paris: Maisonneuve [fr]. pp. cxlvi–cxlvii.
  2. Michael Everson (2008-11-27). "Exploratory proposal to encode Germanicist, Nordicist, and other phonetic characters in the UCS" (PDF). ISO/IEC JTC1/SC2/WG2. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
  3. Everson, Michael (2012-04-29). "Proposal to encode "Unifon" and other characters in the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-04-14.