Waw (letter)
Sixth letter of many Semitic alphabets / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with 9.
This article is about the Semitic letter. For other uses, see WAW.
Waw (wāw "hook") is the sixth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician wāw 𐤅, Aramaic waw 𐡅, Hebrew vav ו, Syriac waw ܘ and Arabic wāw و (sixth in abjadi order; 27th in modern Arabic order).
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Waw | |
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Phoenician | 𐤅 |
Hebrew | ו |
Aramaic | 𐡅 |
Syriac | ܘ |
Arabic | و |
Phonemic representation | w, v, o, u |
Position in alphabet | 6 |
Numerical value | 6 |
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
Greek | Ϝ, Υ |
Latin | F, U, V, W, Y |
Cyrillic | У, Ѵ |
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It represents the consonant [w] in classical Hebrew, and [v] in modern Hebrew, as well as the vowels [u] and [o]. In text with niqqud, a dot is added to the left or on top of the letter to indicate, respectively, the two vowel pronunciations.
It is the origin of Greek Ϝ (digamma) and Υ (upsilon), Cyrillic У, Latin F and V and later Y, and the derived Latin- or Roman-alphabet letters U and W.