Ú


Ú, ú is a Latin letter used in the Czech, Dobrujan Tatar, Faroese, Hungarian, Icelandic, Karakalpak and Slovak writing systems. This letter also appears in Dutch, Frisian, Irish, Occitan, Catalan, Pinyin, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Galician, and Vietnamese as a variant of the letter "U".

Usage in various languages

Czech

Ú/ú is the 34th letter of the Czech alphabet and represents a sound. It is mostly the first letter of the word, as in wikt:úhel 'angle'. If this sound is in the middle of the word, the letter is used instead, as in wikt:kůň 'horse'. Exceptionally, in the middle is written in compound words, such as wikt:trojúhelník triangle, in old words, such as wikt:ocún Colchicum, wikt:Kúsky, and in loanwords, such as wikt:Bejrút 'Beirut', wikt:Rút 'Ruth', wikt:múza 'muse', wikt:manikúra 'manicure', wikt:pedikúra 'pedicure', wikt:štrúdl 'strudel'.

Dobrujan Tatar

Ú/ú is the 28th letter of Dobrujan Tatar alphabet, represents the hight rounded half-advanced ATR or soft vowel /ʉ/ as in "sút" '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" 'to love'.

Faroese

Ú/ú is the 24th letter of the Faroese alphabet, and may represent the following sounds:
  • Short in such words as krúss
  • Short before in such words as kúgv , but also in brúdleyp
  • Long diphthong in úti , hús , jú ,

    Hungarian

Ú/ú is the 36th letter of the Hungarian alphabet and represents a sound.

Icelandic

Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a sound.

Javanese

Ú/ú is the letter of the Javanese Latin alphabet, and represents a sound.

Kazakh

It was proposed in 2018 that Ú/ú should be one of its Latin script, it should represent the near-close front rounded vowel and is used to replace Cyrillic Ү. The replacement is modified to be Ü ü in 2020.

Karakalpak

Ú/ú is the 26th letter of the Karakalpak alphabet and represents near-close front rounded vowel.

Slovak

Ú/ú is the 39th letter of the Slovak alphabet and represents a sound.

Portuguese/Galician/Spanish/Catalan

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.

Italian

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.

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