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| Closed U | |
|---|---|
| Usage | |
| Type | alphabetic |
| Language of origin | |
| Sound values | /u/ |
| History | |
| Development | |
| Time period | 1878, 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
[edit]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
[edit]This letter has not yet been encoded in Unicode, but U+2A4C ⩌ CLOSED UNION WITH SERIFS resembles a closed U.
| 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
[edit]- ^ Pacheco Zegarra, Gavino (1878). Ollantaï. Paris: Maisonneuve. pp. cxlvi–cxlvii.
- ^ Everson, Michael (2012-04-29). "Proposal to encode "Unifon" and other characters in the UCS" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-04-14.